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THE 

COMPANION TO SPELLING B00KS ; 

IN WHICH 

THE ORTHOGRAPHY AND MEANING 

OF 

MANY THOUSAND WORDS, 

MOST LIABLE TO BE MISSPELLED AND MISUSED, 
ARE 

IMPRESSED UPON THE MEMORY 

BY A 

REGULAR SERIES OF WRITTEN EXERCISES. 






BY WILLIAM B. FOWLE, 

AUTHOR OF THE COMMON SCHOOL SPELLER, COMMON SCHOOL GRAMMAR, 

COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY, BIBLE READER, PRIMARY READER, 

FAMILIAR DIALOGUES, LINEAR DRAWING, AND OTHER 

SCHOOL BOOKS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH. 



BOSTON: 



PUBLISHED BY WM. B. FOWLE AND N. CAPEN, 
184 Washington Street. 

1843. 



^V--"'. 1 A*.** •»•**»-• •• 






Entered according to Act of Congress ; in the year 1843, 

BY WM. B. FOWLE, 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. 



s 






STEREOTYPED BY 

GEORGE A. CURTIS, 

NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY, 
BOSTON. 



PREFACE. 



This Companion to Spelling Books completes the design of 
the author in preparing his Common School Speller ; for, much 
as depends upon constant practice in a good spelling book, it 
will not be denied that a pupil can not be considered safe, until 
he has become accustomed to write and use words, as well as to 
spell them orally. 

In the following lessons, the object has been to select such 
words as, from some peculiarity, are most liable to be misspelled 
or misused, and to fix the attention of the pupil especially upon 
them, by requiring them to be corrected. The words are care- 
fully classed from beginning to end, so that the laws of English 
orthography are systematically illustrated by examples. 

In the sentences which have been prepared for this purpose, 
it is believed that the pupil will learn the correct meaning and 
use of words better than by the use of a dictionary, and, at 
the same time, acquire much useful knowledge and some 
salutary advice. Moreover, as the grammatical construction of 
the sentences and the punctuation are correct, and nothing but 
the orthography of the marked words is to be altered, the prac- 
tice upon these lessons will prove one of the best introductions 
to the writing of English composition that can be found. 

This Companion may be used in various ways, some of which 
will be briefly explained. 

1. The pupil may be required to take the book and write the 
lessons correctly on paper, by the aid of a dictionary, at all 
times when he is not otherwise engaged; and, with such a 
standing task, it is believed that much of the idleness, ennui 
and mischief, so common in our schools, may be prevented, 
without any interruption to the other exercises. 

2. The teacher may write the sentences upon a black-board, 
and require each pupil to correct them upon his slate, without 



using a dictionary, each passing his slate to the next pupil for 
examination, and continuing to examine and pass until his own 
slate comes round to him again. 

3. The teacher may dictate the sentences to the class, with- 
out regard to the errors, and require them to be written with or 
without a dictionary, as he may determine. 

4. The teacher may dictate only the words in Italic type, and, 
after seeing that they are correctly spelled, he may require the 
pupil, by the aid of a dictionary, to write original sentences, in 
which they shall be correctly used. 

These are the principal ways in which the author has used 
similar lessons for about twenty years with excellent effect, but 
he has no doubt that every intelligent teacher will readily invent 
other methods, or modify these to suit the circumstances of his 
school. 

It is proper to state that the arrangement of these lessons 
corresponds with the classification of words in the Common 
School Speller of the author, but though this coincidence may 
be a convenience to those who use the Speller, and may render 
a dictionary less necessary to them, still it does not in the least 
unfit the book for use in any school where any other spelling 
book is used, or where spelling is taught in any other way ; for 
the characteristic of each class, or a rule, is given at the head 
of each lesson. ¥m. B. Fowle. 

October 17, 1843. 



INDEX 

TO THE 

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CLASSES 

ACCORDING TO WHICH 

THE LESSONS OF THIS BOOK ARE ARRANGED, 



Classes. 



CHARACTERISTICS, 



Lessons. 



10. 

11. 

12. 

13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 



A long, as i?i Fate, 



A short, as in Fat, 
E long, as in Me, 

E short, as in Met, 
I long, as in Pine, 
I short, as in Pin, 
O long, as in No, 
O short, as in Not, 



U short, as in Tub 

Y long, like I in Pine, 

Y short, like I in Pin, 



. 1, 26, 27, 107, 213. 

2, 3, 28, 29, 108, 148. 

. . . . 4, 30, 109. 

. 5, 6, 31, 110, 148. 
14, 32, 33, 34, 111, 213. 

8, 9, 35, 36, 112, 148. 

. . 10, 37, 38, 113. 

. 11, 39, 40, 114, 148. 

. 12, 41, 42, 115, 213. 

.... 13, 43, 44. 
45. 120, 121, 122. 
46, 47, 48, 123 to 128, 149 to 
152, 169, 170. 

A as in Far and Fast, 15, 49. 

A asm All, 16,50. 

AI as long A in Fate, .... 17, 52, 53, 159. 

AU like A in All, 16, 55, 160. 

AW like A in All, . 16,56. 

AY and EY like long A in Fate, .... 17, 57. 

EE like long E in Me, 4, 58, 59, 161. 

EA like long E in Me, 18, 60, 162. 

EW like long U in Cure, 12. 

IE and EI like long E in Me, . 19, 61, 62, 163, 164. 

IE like long I in Pine, 14. 

O as in Nor, 63. 

OO as in Cool, 20, 64, 65. 

OO as U in Bull. 

OAax%OmNo, 21,66. 

OW as long O in No, 22, 67. 

OE as long O in No, 22. 

OU as long O in No, 22, 68. 



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Classes. CHARACTERISTICS. Lessons. 

31. OU as in Bound, 23,69,165. 

32. OW as in Now, 24. 

33. 01 05 m Oil, .25,70,166. 

34. OY as in Boy, 71. 

35. U as in Bull, 73, 74, 75. 

-36. A as O short in Not, 51. 

37. A and AI as in Care and Air, 54. 

38. O as 00 in Cool, 72. 

39. IGH ax I long in Pine, 76. 

40. like V short in Tub, ... 77 to 79, 153, 154. 

41. OU liheU short in Tub, 80, 155 to 158. 

42. I like U short in Tub, 81. 

43. E final, not lengthening preceding vowels, 82 to 85, 

136 to 139. 

44. E silent before final ' N, as in Sadden, . . 86, 87. 

45. E silent before L and after L and R, 88, 89, 140 to 

144, 167, 168. 

46. ED and ING added to verbs ending in E, 90, 91, 145 

to 147. 

47. Double Consonants retained in Compounds, 92, 93, 94. 

48. Single Consonants doubled when a syllable is added., 95, 

96, 97, 98. 

49. Words containing Double Consonants, 99, 223 to 233. 

50. WH at the beginning of words, .... 100, 101. 

51. A final as Ah, 102. 

52. Words ending in ENT and ENCE, . . 171 to 174. 

53. UE and EU as long U in Cure, 103. 

54. Ill as long I, short I, long U, arid OO, . . . 104. 

55. EA as E in Met, A in Care, in Fate, and in 

Far, . v \ 105, 106, 166. 

56. I, at the end* of unaccented syllables, as in Pin, 116, 117, 

118, 149 to 152. 

57. SM like ZM at the end of words, 119. 

58. A like U short in But, ... 129 to 132, 211, 212. 

59. ER like UR in Curl, 133, 134. 

60. IZE and ISE at the end of words, .... 135. 

62. S followed by C, as in Scene, .... 175 to 179. 

63. TJOIS, SION, and CIAN, pronounced Skvv, 180 to 192. 

64. ION as Yun and Un, 193, 194. 

65. TIOUS, CIOUS, and CEOUS, like Shus, 195 to 197. 

66. TI and CI like Sh, 198, 199. 

67. I A as Ya, IE as Ye, IO as Yo, .... 200,201. 

68. GE and GI as J, 202. 

69. TI, CI, and SCI as She, ....... 203. 

70. S as Sh and T^u, 204. 

74. QtJ as if preceded by C , 205. 

75. C and G soft before E and 1 206 to 210. 



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Classes. CHARACTERISTICS. Lessons. 

76. CK hard, like K, 214 to 217. 

77. PH like F, . . . 218 to 222. 

79. N nasal, like Ng, 234. 

80. EI as A long, E short, and I short, . . . . . 235. 

81. AI as E short and I short ; ATJ G5 A m Far ; 

I A as I in Pin ; UasW; AGE anrf EGE 

«5 Idge, 236, 237. 

82. Words containing Silent Letters, . . . 238 to 244. 

83. French Sounds of QU, OU, CH, and I, . 245 to 248. 

85. Irregular Words, 249 to 263. 

86. Words alike in Pronunciation, . . . 264 to 315. 

87. Words misused for each other ; Vulgarisms, 316 to 326. 

Appendix, page 120. 

Errors occasioned by improper use of the apostrophe, 327 to 339. 
Miscellaneous Lessons having the errors marked, 340 to 355. 
Miscellaneous Lessons in which the errors are not 

marked 356 to 397. 






THE 



COMPANION TO SPELLING BOOKS, 



LESSON I. 



Class 1.- 



Words containing long A. 



A fair fuse is not always a blessing. A qnick 
paice is not always a sure one. The rase is not 
always to the swift. These scenes must faid 
away. Man was maid for usefulness. How my 
head aiks ! He spaik and it was done. He 
wandered up hill and down dail. Faim injures 
weak minds. Put the flowers into a vace. 
Friends chace care away. Never halt any one. 
Women scait in Holland. The dead occupy but 
little spase. 



LESSON II. 
Class 2. — Words containing short A. 

The crabb is said to walk backward. It is 
better sometimes to lac than to abound. A qnak 
may sometimes cure. Tackt means skill. A 
good ladd never lies. Can you ad four and six 
together ? Put the apples in a bagg. You must 
not Jlagg before you are tired. He climbed over 
rocks and craggs. Eat heartily, but do not 
cramm. The Bible is compared to a lampe. 
The cann is full of ale. The vann of an army 
goes in front, the rear comes last. 



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LESSON III. 
Class 2, continued. 
Nothing happens by chanse. He was attacked 
by a gangue of robbers. Go to the ar^it, thou 
sluggard. The swallows build nests in the banc. 
Clapp your hands, but do not slapp your com- 
panions. A cassk is a wooden vessel. He was 
at the last gassp. A young girl is called a las. 
Bi^as is a mixed metal. Useless fear should be 
kast aside. I have a batt, but want a ball. He 
loves to chatt with his friends. The rati did not 
fall into the trapp. 

LESSON IV. 

Classes 3 and 19. — Words containing long E, 

or EE. 

Shee is more ready to censure than to praise. 

A mear look was sufficient to rebuke him. To 

eak otit is to lengthen. What is the theem or 

subject of our next composition 1 A lawyer's pay 

is called his/ea. A s/ieap is valued most for its 

fleese. Beaf is the flesh of cows and oxen. An 

eal is a slender fish. That knife has a kean edge. 

Speach distinguishes men from beasts. Creap 

softly, and do not cough or sneez. She iveaps 

because her teath ache. 

LESSON V. 
Class 4. — Words with short E. 
The spider's webb is artfully spread. The sea 
ebs when it retires. No seckt should persecute. 
The runners of my sledd are ironed. To loedd is 
to marry. Birds and reptiles lay egs. A small 
cask is called a kegg. It is shameful not to spel 
loel. The ellum is a graceful tree. The helum 
of a ship is what she is steered by. What elce is 
it good for ? Penns are taken from geese, and not 
from henns. There is a bird on the fense. Tence, 
in grammar, means time. 



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LESSON VI. 
Class 4, continued. 
Can you play at pegg top? A jesst often 
offends. What one getts by a belt is unlawfully 
gotten. 1 have a sett of ches men. Her treses 
waved in the wind. The deepest rocks contain 
the rarest gem/ms. He is an ill-bredd boy. A 
stnellt is a small fish. The yellk of an eg is yellow. 
Human kenn means human knowledge. There is 
a beautiful jett at the water- works. That dres 
does not become your seeks. You must learn to 
hernm before you stitch. 



LESSON VII. 
Class 5. — Words with long I. 
A gybe is a sort of jest. Ryse is a nourishing 
food. Give me a slise of bread. To byde is to 
remain. False reports are ryfe or prevalent. 
Beware of the toyles or tricks of pleasure. Myne 
cannot be thyne also. Kyte is the name of a bird, 
and a plaything. A lively child is said to be 
blythe. In some countries a tythe or tenth part 
belongs to the church. His sise is small. To 
twyne is to twist. Vise grows up in a trise. A 
dyke is only a ditch. A dyme is a tenth part of 
a dollar. 

LESSON VIII. 
Class 6. — Words with shoi*t I. 
The ox knoweth his master's cribb. The 
ribbs are attached to the spine. Pic up the wic 
of that lamp. A. young goat is called a kidd. 
The skwid is a sort of fish. You must moor the 
skif under the clif. That quit will make a stif 
pen. The brigg brought home a cargo of Jiggs. 
A sudden chit produced fever. It is time to 
skimm the millk. The flying fish has large finns 
for wings. Ginn is made from berries. Fill the 
glass up to the brimm with water. 



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LESSON IX. 

Class 6. continued. 

Zink is a kind of metal, and so is tinn. Many 
animals are killed for their skinns. The clothes 
should be rimed. Do not sludge your hair. 
The mine is a sort of animal. A rude girl is 
called a minks. Wood-cutters make many 
chipps. Do not ripp your gown. A scripp is a 
small bag. The bridle is fastened to the bitt. 
Rises are tokens of friendship. Never twitt one 
with his poverty. A wythe is a band of twigs. 

LESSON X. 

Class 7. — Words with long 0. 

Do not choak him. Many a joak ends in 
earnest. I knew by the smoak that a cottage 
was near. He gave me some, but I want moer. 
You must not use forse to convince him. The 
flesh. of swine is called porke. One pill is a doce. 
Stockings are called hoze. Quoath is an old 
word, meaning said. Sloath rusts the mind. 
Role the log away. An ape is a drole animal. 
None can resist the stroak of death. 

LESSON XI. 

Class 8. — Words with short O. 

Clean all the corn from the cobb. That man 
prefers to work by the jobb. There is an od 
sheep in the Jlok. Dof is a quaint word, meaning 
take of. Jogg your friend if he falls asleep. 
She went to the shopp and bought a dot It is 
cruel to cropp an animal's ears. A cops is a col- 
lection of low trees to be cut for fuel. A bos is a 
sort of knob. Every man should pay his scott. 
The ods means the excess or difference. Some 
persons editfroggs and doggs. To conn a lesson 
is to study it. 



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LESSON XII. 

Classes 9 and 21. — Words with long U and EW. 

The wife of a dooke is a duchess. Play me a 
toon upon that fooA Herod slue the innocent 
children. The cat will mue. The rfoo fell upon 
the grass. They brue beer, and distil spirit. 
To fewm is to vapor or smoke. Uze everybody 
well. To fuze a metal means to melt it. The 
cock croo thrice. Prevention is far better than 
kure. I had no klew, or guide, through the for- 
est. The skrew is a powerful machine. 

LESSON XIII. 

Class 10. — Words with short U '. 

The young of a fox or bear is called a cubb. 
A grubb changes to a winged insect. Pride is 
often nipped in the budd. The cufs of my coat 
are ragged. Place the rugg before the fire. He 
sells druggs and medicines. The doctor felt of 
his pidce. He had to pay a mulkt or fine. A 
bunn is a sort of cake. The hair of some animals 
is called furr. Kurds are made into cheese. 
How gracefully that hair kurls ! It is wicked to 
cuss or swear. To be "all in the sudds" is to 
be in trouble or confusion. 

LESSON XIV. 

Classes 11 and 23. — Words with long Y and IE. 

Children dye, as well as the aged. Ofye! To 
hye away is to hasten away. The skie is full 
of vapor. Sick persons should not eat pye or 
cake. Pigs are confined in a stye. I cannot 
speak while he is standing bye. Italic tipe leans, 
but Roman is upright. A lire is a stringed 
instrument. She is too shie. Tye the dog and 
he will lye down. Do not crie as you cried yes- 
terday. Do not prie into your neighbor's affairs. 
To vye with, means to trie to excel. 

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LESSON XV. 
Class 13. — Words with A as in Far. 
He broke a barr of iron. She sent for a jarr 
of olives. A farse is an amusing kind of play. 
The lartch is a beautiful tree. I saw a deer in 
the pare. Marie is a rich kind of soil. To sing 
passages of scripture is to chaunt. Most conver- 
sation is full of chafe. To quaf is used in poetry 
for to drink. The parth of piety is the pathe of 
peace. It is impolite to garp before company. 
A mast or yard is also called a sparr. Rise with 
the tare, and with the larck to bed. 

LESSON XVI. 

Classes 14, 16 and 17. — Words toith A, AU, or 
AW, as A in All. 
Sawce is a vulgar word for vegetables. A 
hauk is a bird of prey. A clawse is part of a sen- 
tence. To yorn is to gape. The paun is the 
humblest piece at chess. A floor of wind over- 
turned the boat. The lore of the Lord is perfect. 
A dworf is a diminutive person. One kind of 
excrescence is called a wort. Do not worp that 
comb. Warrs are often legal robberies. We 
rarely see our own fawlts. 

LESSON XYII. 
Classes 15 and 18. — Words with AI, AY, or EY, 
as long A. 
He payed me all he owed me. She put up her 
hair in a brayed. Do not fate to bring- a chane. 
tSley at home. Prisoners are confined in a jale. 
Cley is made into bricks. Never strey from the 
path of virtue. Who are thay? The sprey 
seems like fine rain. Tioane is an old word for 
two. The crows hovered over the slayn. He 
layd his hat on the table. How long has it layn 
there ? Sing in a more lively strane. The brayn 
is the organ of the mind. 



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LESSON XYIII. 

Class 20. — Words with EA like long E. 

A pee is as good as a been. A lawyer's argu- 
ment is called a plee. Reech me a cup of tee. 
Many say learn when they mean teech. Indians 
are fond of beeds. A bundle of stalks is called a 
sheef of grain. The flesh of a calf is called veel. 
Cheep things are often deer. Peet is vegetable 
earth. We ferment bread with yeest. Fasten 
the gutter to the eeves of the house. Pleaze to 
take a seet. Do not teeze an ill-tempered person. 

LESSON XIX. 

Class 22. — Words with IE like long E. 

A neice is the daughter of one's brother or 
sister. The cheif virtue is love. A theif pays 
dearly for what he steals. The greif of children 
is very breif. A leige is a sovereign. The 
Americans laid seige to Boston. The feilds arc 
green. Can you weild that heavy sheild? Never 
yeild to temptation. A feend is an evil spirit. 
Savage nations are feirce. Bad children greive 
their parents and peirce their hearts. The preist 
forbade him to theive. 

LESSON XX. 

Class 25. — Words ivith 00 as in Cool. 

A fide can not bear reproof. Let us sit in the 
kool shade of that tree. The rufe of a house is 
sometimes thatched. The dove kooes and the 
goos gabbles. The koot is called a silly bird. A 
lupe is the fold or doubling of a string. A bad 
workman always complains of his tides. The 
water will ooz through that cork. We met a 
trupe of horse. A nooce is a sort of slip-knot. 
The moos is an animal of the deer kind. 



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LESSON XXI. 
Class 27. — Words with OA like long O. 
A lode of oke wood. The young of the horse 
is called a fole. The best sope is made of soda 
and oil. His cote is badly torn. A gole is a 
boundary in a race. The shole is hardly covered 
by the sea. The frogs are said to croke. Horses 
love to eat otes. We lothe what we dislike. 
Croup is a disease of the throte. A canoe is a 
slight sort of bote. He sang till he grew horse. 
He paid for bord and lodging. A grone is an 
expression of pain. 

LESSON XXII. 
Classes 28 3 29 and 30.— Words toith OW, OE, 
or OU like long O. 
Cold winds blowe from the north. A fo is the 
same thing as an enemy. Power the water on 
the ground. Cocks crowe and cows lowe. A 
gord resembles a squash. Man was made to 
morn. A farmer should not let his ho rust. Life 
has been called a golden bole. Some bottles are 
cast in a mold. Once a year birds molt or shed 
their feathers. God is the sorce of all life. The 
wind has bloan down the fruit. The kourt will 
determine what the law means. 

LESSON XXIII. 
Class 31. — Words with OU as in Bound. 
How can dependant man be prowd? The 
Jlounse of her dress is too full. An ounse of pre- 
vention is worth a poivnd of cure. The clowd 
came from the sowth. A stought man may soon 
become weak. To owst an officer is to displace 
him. A spouze may mean either a husband or 
a wife. To cry, in the scriptures, means to showt, 
and not to weep. The gowt is sometimes an 
hereditary disease. The hawks pounse upon the 
chickens. The lion krouches before he springs. 



LESSON XXIV. 
Class 32. — Words ivith OW as in Now. 
To browze is to eat leaves and tender twigs. 
The toun for manners and the country for morals. 
She says her gownd is torn. A voive is a religious 
promise. A coul is the hood or cap of a monk's 
gown. The oid is a nocturnal or night bird. 
Nowe is always the best time to reform. Dogs 
groulj but they do not scoid. The croione does 
not preserve a king from care. The fore part of 
a vessel is called the prou. A skow is a large flat 
boat. The croud could not find room to sit. 

LESSON XXV. 
Class 33. — Words with 01 as in Oil. 
To seethe the meat is the same as to boyl it. 
The rope is in a koil. They fenced with foyls. 
Men toile and moyl for wealth that they must 
soon leave. The spoyls of war are no better than 
plunder. To royl is to stir up the sediment. To 
broile is to roast over coals, and not before them. 
The voise may be improved by careful use. We 
have the choise between good and evil. Joyn 
hands, but make no noize. Koif means a head- 
dress. To foiste in is to introduce wrongfully. 

LESSON XXVI. 
Class 1 . — Words with A long. 
Put a table on the bottle to show what it con- 
tains. Prepare some nutmeg with the greater. 
Do not wet a waifer too much. Never waiver in 
your purpose. Do not imitate the dog in the 
mainger. Camebric is a thin sort of cloth. 
Some freemen lead slaveish lives. Pastery is 
not wholesome food. Sirname means additional 
name. The landskip is obscure. A mesmale 
is a companion at meals. Water will filterate 
through some kinds of stone. An ungrateful 
person is called an ingreat. 

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LESSON XXVII. 

Class 1, continued. 
Public speakers should avoid grimase. Honest 
poverty is no disgrase. To blocade a town is to 
prevent access to it. The missionary often fore- 
sakes his home and country. To mis stake is to 
take amiss. To impail is to run a stake through 
the body. I did not intend to missname her 
sister. Some stains can not be eraced. To dylate 
is to spread or widen. Men inslave themselves to 
bad habits. A balloon would amaize a savage. 
A caskade is a sort of water-fall. 

LESSON XXYIII. 
Class 2. — Words with short A. 
A hut is sometimes called a cabbin. Bad hab- 
bits are hardly ever mended. The sabath is a 
day of rest. The acsess means the entrance or 
approach. A jackit is a part of male attire. 
Praise Him with the sackbutt and harp. Cabbage 
is used as a sallad. A debt contracted by gaming 
is not vallid. Allum is used to fix the colors of 
cloth. They cansel a bond by erasing the signa- 
tures. On the pannels were beautiful paintings. 
A canser is a dreadful sore. A lanset is a sur- 
geon's instrument. A trancit is a passing over. 

LESSON XXIX. 
Class 2, continued. 
It is easier to resist than to vangquish evil 
habits. A banditt is a robber. A garland for 
the head is called a chaplit. John the Babtist 
preached repentance. The tarriff is a rate of 
duties paid to government. Mattins are morning 
prayers. Sattin is more glossy than velvet. The 
Lattin school is in the other parrish. The cane 
called rattan comes from India. Jappan is a sort 
of varnish. Behold the ocean's wide expance ! A 
misshap is an unpleasant accident. The conva- 
lescent must beware of a relaps. 



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LESSON XXX. 
Class 3. — Words with long E. 
Example is better than presept. His wife's 
mother lay sick of a feaver. A presinct means 
an enclosure or limit. The thin substance above 
the atmosphere is called either. To vetoe a law is 
to refuse assent to it. Particles concreet when 
they harden into one mass. A lion is of the 
cat genius or kind. We acceed or agree to the 
arrangement. The snpream court is the highest. 
His last days were sereen. The sincear need not 
be offensive. His reformation was compleat. Re- 
pentance must preceed reform. 

LESSON XXXI. 
Class 4. — Words with short E. 
Wedlok is another word for marriage. A tel- 
tale always offends. The Seliic tribes inhabited 
ancient Britain. Salt gives a rellis/i to food. A 
tennet is an article of belief. Lend me your 
pensil. The tendrills enable the vine to climb. 
A sceptic is one who doubts. I have sent him on 
an arrand. A sherif is an officer of the courts. 
Let him who merrits the crown wear it. Rezin 
is dissolved with spirit, and gum with water. 
Virgil's eppic poem is called the iEneid. 

LESSON XXXII. 

Class 4, continued. 
He was egected or turned out. We exspect 
much where much has been given. An ereckt 
position is the most healthful one. No man can 
exsel in every thing. The wind dispells or drives 
away the clouds. Earthquakes poretend volcanic 
eruptions. Have you read Paul's defense before 
Agrippa? His humility is all pretense. It is 
"wrong to incence an angry person. The power 
of example is immence. We can not dispence 
with the Sabbath. You should not keep them in 
suspence. Avoid all useless expences. 



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LESSON XXXIII. 
Class 5.— Words with lo?ig I. 
Who does not love the sweet bryer? The 
cryer says that a child is lost. Cyder is the 
expressed juice of apples. The tyger is more 
ferocious than the lion. A clymax is a figure of 
speech. A syren was an imaginary being. A 
grinstone is turned by a winch. A trypod is a 
three-legged stool. The crysis is the most impor- 
tant moment. Our passtimes should not interfere 
with business. The feeline race is the race of 
cats. A vampyre is an imaginary monster. A 
hired person is a hierling. 

LESSON XXXIY. 
Class 5, continued. 
They askribe that writing to me. To trans- 
scribe is to copy. Youth are easily entised. 
Never deside hastily. To betyde is to happen. 
To calsine is to burn to a powder. The kanine 
race is the race of dogs. The hero lay soopine or 
on his back. To dezire is something more than 
to wish. The too presice are troubled often. 
An excize is a sort of tax. Religion comprizes 
or includes morality. To devize is to leave by 
will. To ignight is to burn or kindle. 

LESSON XXXY. 
Class 6. — Words with short I. 
Wichcraft is no longer a crime. Nervous per- 
sons are apt to fidjet. The midrif is the same as 
the diaphragm. Some, to purify water, filter it. 
His ilness made him thoughtful. The first book 
is called the primmer. A gimblet is a small 
auger. Ginsang is an aromatic root. Linnen 
is made of flax. Small pinchers are called pliers. 
That sirrup makes a pleasant drink. Sinders 
often flame again. The spirrit should control 
the body. 






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LESSON XXXVL 

Class 6, continued. 
To depickt is to paint or describe. To abrige 
is to reduce or shorten. The dew distills in 
silence. Wait iintill he comes. That action 
evinses or shows great courage. The moon 
causes an eclips of the sun, and the earth an 
eklipse of the moon. Dismis all thoughts of 
revenge. Who can untuist the thread of life? 
The vessels came into port to refitt or be repaired. 
Emprint that truth upon your memory. Omitt 
all civilities that lead to vice or insincerity. 

LESSON XXXVIL 
Class 7. — Words with long O. 
That was a woeful tale. His father was a 
grosser, and not a haberdasher. He was the 
doner or giver of that present. The bolester is 
beneath the pillow. A hollster is a horseman's 
case for pistols. A flower ist cultivates flowers. 
A creeole does not mean a mulatto or negro. 
Brimmstone is impure sulphur. A primerose is 
an early flower. A tadpoll is an imperfect frog. 
An artificial nozegay lacks perfume. The heart 
and lungs are contained in the thoracs or chest. 

LESSON XXXVIII. 
Class 7, continued. 
An idle youth forbodes a useless old age. To 
patrole the camp is to go the rounds. Every one 
should controul his temper. To cajoll is to deceive. 
Never withold what you can well spare. The 
destruction of Jerusalem was fortold. A man's 
parol is his word of honor. Religion consoals the 
mourner. Oncore is a French word, meaning 
-again. Hear befor you condemn. He is &jococe 
or mirthful man, and his brother is very moross 
or sour. This world should not ingross all our 
thoughts. To depoze is to remove from office. 




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LESSON- XXXIX. 
Class 8. — Words with short O. 
A cob-toebb is a wonderful work. Gobblins 
are scarce where knowledge abounds. Kjokund 
tale is a merry one. A icoim&-?robbin is a circle 
of names. Her bonet is a moddest one. Men 
look too much at the proffit of their actions. 
Acids remove the pollisk of glass. A pontif is a 
bishop. A com/£ generally has a train or tail. 
In verse two long syllables form a sponde. Silence 
is better than nonsence. The onsett, or first 
attack, was terrible. A connic form is that of a 
cone. 

LESSON XL. 
Class 8, continued. 
He came to a nonpluss or stand-still. Frunt- 
lets were worn on the forehead. Is it propper to 
spell florrid thus? Rozin once meant the same 
as resin. Inkog is a contraction of incognito, and 
means unknown. The treasurer abskonded or 
ran away. To extoll is to praise highly. To 
rezolve is easier than to perform. Responces are 
answers. The silly virgins foregot to take a 
supply of oil. To die, in marine language, is to 
go alofft. 

LESSON XLI. 
Class 9. — Words with U long. 
Hard wood is the best for fewel. Dewels lead 
to cruel murders. He wore a dukeal coronet. 
A blueish color is a faint blue. Sewet is a sort of 
hard fat. Lusent means shining, and lusid 
means clear. A song by two persons is a duett. 
Prefer deuty to pleasure. The prellude should 
precede the play. A tnoddule is a measure in 
architecture. Pussiules are little blisters contain- 
ing pus. Tribbunes were officers of ancient 
Rome. A stattute is a law. 



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LESSON XLIL 
Class 9, continued. 
No man should traduse or slander another. 
He aduees no proof, or brings none forward. 
They did not alv.de to that subject. A perruke 
is a sort of wig. Lightning Humes the sky. 
They rezumed the controversy, or took it up 
again. To ajure is to solemnly call upon. That 
sentiment is obskurely expressed. We may enure 
ourselves to hardships. To transfuze is to pour 
from one vessel into another. To missuse our 
talents is sinful. An akute mind comprehends 
abstruce subjects, 

LESSON XLHL 
Class 10. — Words with short U. 
He lives in the subuhs or outskirts of the city. 
A bucler is a shield. Ducklins are young ducks. 
Lay the cudjei by that budjet or bundle. Some 
persons are moved only by impidce. The flesh 
around the ulser was turjid or swollen. Those 
didset notes are soft and sweet. They ate a hrm- 
dud dumplins. The cruper is a leather strap, 
A citizen is called a bnrges also. The nitrslin is 
quite helpless. What remains over is the stir- 
pluss. 

LESSON XLIV, 
Class 10, continued. 
Muzlin is a thin cotton cloth. The bultler 
takes care of the bottles. A snttler sells provisions 
in a camp. A dutchess is the wife of an earl or 
that of a duke. Some dutchics are smaller than 
Rhode Island. The prejudiced often missjndge. 
lie addressed the king and met with a rebvf. 
The Maelstrom engulplis small vessels. He 
devulges every secret confided to him. To rebntt 
is to offset or beat back. 



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LESSON XLY. 
Class 11. — Words tvith Y long. 

A tiro is a young scholar. Several revolutions 
of the moon form a cicle. The Hydrah was a 
fabulous monster with many heads. The god 
Himen presided over marriages. The cipress for 
funerals, and the laurel for triumphs. That was 
stilish furniture. A by-law is one not in the con- 
stitution. To bid one good-by is the same as to 
wish him a pleasant journey. Your vandike does 
not cover your shoulders. He deskried danger 
at a distance. The fox slily approached the hen- 
roost. 

LESSON XLYI. 
Class 12. — Words with Y short. 

The linx is an animal of the cat genus or kind. 
A synic was a snarling philosopher. A mistic 
ring the fairies drew around. A chrystal is a 
mineral in a regular form. Silvan gods were 
once supposed to live in the forests. Sintax is a 
division of grammar. A convention of clergymen 
is called a sinnod. The verses of a lirick poem 
are often irregular. Gipsum is plaster of Paris 
The larinx is the upper part of the windpipe. 
A Sibil was a wild sort of prophetess. An idill 
is a pastoral poem. 

LESSON XLYII. 
Class 12, continued. 

The Jlecy clouds are beautiful. Icey boddies, as 
large as mountains, floated along. Studdy the 
lillies of the field. Her dress looked dingey, 
neither very clean nor very dirty. The covetous 
are not always stingey. The landscape has a 
duskey appearance after sunset. The galaxy is 
called the milkey way also. Fish are not all 
skaly. The coppy was duly made. The gipsey 
wandered through the mirey path. Tanzy is a 
fragrant herb. Rosey cheeks are too rarely seen. 
The hippopotamus is a clumzy animal. 



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LESSON XLYIII. 
Class 12, continued. 
11 'T is true it is a p^, and pitty 't is 
Sailors often have the scurvey. Two scores are 
equal to four ty. An abby is a religious building, 
A jocky deals in horses. The ass is called a 
donky. The fer% is an American bird. A 
vally separates two hills. What soldiers call a 
parly Indians call a talk. The kidny is a secre- 
tory organ. A chimny is not used in warm 
countries. Be not hastey to revenge a wrong. 
Onely at first meant one-like or singly.. 

LESSON XLIX. 
Class IS. — Words with A as in Far. 
Be gentle, and avoid harshnes. The innocent 
are generally a?*tliss. The harvist is great. I 
will pay the markit price. The artic circle sur- 
rounds the north pole. The patridge is an edible 
bird. The side or edge is called the marjin. Say 
father and mother, not pappa and mama. A 
segar is a doubtful comfort. Many fear men and 
yet reguard not God. Desires inlarge as they 
are gratified. Alass ! why did you not aUarm 
him 2 Garnit is a valuable mineral. 

LESSON L. 
Class 1 4. — Wo?*ds with A as in All. 
J //so, cdhnost and allways are called adverbs in 
grammar. Do not faulter when duty says, go on. 
Alspice is also called pimento. Bolsam exudes 
from certain trees. The word paralysis is con- 
tracted into palzy. That was a poltry action. 
The birds ivarbel joyfully. Green wallnuts are 
often pickled. When the well is dry we learn 
the worth of warier. The qvodrant was invented 
by Godfrey. The jackall followed the lion. Do 
not misseal his name. I for-warn you not to go 
athwort, or across, the stream. 



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LESSON LI. 
Class 36. — Words with A as short O. 
A squod is a small company of soldiers. A 
squodron is part of an army or of a fleet. That 
swolloio wos pursued by a hawk. The woltz 
requires the dancer to revolve continually. He 
put a quantity of food in the wollet. A quodrvped 
has four feet, and a monkey four hands. The 
building stones are still at the quorry. Cir- 
cumstances quolify actions. The quadrature of 
a circle is the squaring of it. Alequant is an 
unequal part of a number. The wosp is less 
useful than the bee. What a graceful swan ! 

LESSON LTL 
Class 15. — Words with AI as long A. 
The halestones fell in heaps. The haUff deliv- 
ered the prisoner to the jailer. The sailer meets- 
with dayly perils. The merrnade regards not 
rayment. The plantiff makes a coniplaynt, and 
the defendant answers to it. A catiffis a villain. 
Gayters are short spatterdashes. Chillhlains are 
the effect of frost. How many owe their gentility 
to their taller s. The sick are naturally daynty. 
Raizin is the French word for a grape. The 
traylor was false to his government though true 
to his country. 

LESSON LIIL 

Class 15, continued. 
The guilty is afraid of his own shadow. He 
died and left many debts impayed. Retale is the 
opposite of wholesale. The vicious often declame 
the most loudly against- vice. Manetane your 
integrity at all hazards. The most secure should 
refrane from temptation. We can aim at perfec- 
tion, though we may never attane to it. Sorrows 
awate the happiest of mortals. It does not remove 
evils to complane of them. To exclame is to cry 
out. Treat no one with disdane. 



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LESSON LIV. 
Class 37. — Words with A or AI as in Care and 
Air. 
Be carefull if you would succeed. Seek to 
promote the luettfare of others. The prudent 
provide for a time of scarceity. The Jews put to 
death any child who struck his parrent. A stare- 
case must not be called a pair of stares. Corsare 
is a genteel word for pirate. The miser must bid 
farewel to his treasures. Ground glass is translu- 
cent, but not transparreni. He trod unawairs 
upon the snake. While the rent is small, repare 
it. Never dispair of doing what others have done. 

LESSON LY. 

Class 16. — Words ivith AU like A in All. 
Avoid every thing that is gawdy. Awbarn 
hair is a shade of brown. How many cups and 
sawcers make a set ? The conquerors wore twigs 
of laivrel. His conduct was fallty if not criminal. 
He seeks the plauditts or aplauses of the multi- 
tude. A sentaur was said to be" half man and 
half horse. The orator had no auditers. It is 
laudible to be careful. The aironaut must exaust 
his balloon. Say to temptation, avaivnt! begone ! 
A caucuss is a political meeting. Pawpers are 
supported by the public. 

LESSON LVI. 

Class 17. — Words ivith AW like A in All. 
Aukward men are more common than awkward 
women. It is absurd to say a thing is aweful 
silly. The lion is of a torny color. Too much 
finery is apt to look tawdrey. A strawbery is a 
compound fruit. A tommahawk is a sort of 
hatchet. A Turkish basshaio is also called a 
pacha. Beautiful feathers will not make a pea- 
cock of a jacdaxo. You will find it in the drawr. 
Maukish prudery is worse than honest rudeness. 
Many things are wrong that are not unlawfull. 



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LESSON LYIL 
Class 18. — Words with AY or EY like lonp- A. 

A larnan is not a clergyman. He called for 
paimeni. A ivayword child must be restrained. 
Gaiety is not inconsistent with sobriety. The 
mayer is the highest officer of the city. The 
eyrie or nest of an eagle is roughly constructed. 
I can not pourtray his character. Surveigh this 
wondrous world. Certain officers pervey or pro- 
vide for armies-. Idle words lead to fatal afrays. 
Assaye the gold to see if it is pure. 
LESSON LYIIL 
Class 19. — Words with EE like long E. 

The young should be more heedfirfl. Only one 
thing is eminently needfidl. An infant is more 
feble than the young of other animals. The 
ancient Peruvians used long thorns for needels. 
Children pinched at home are gready abroad. 
Good hreding is as important as good talents. 
Fredom must have its limits. Feelin is touch, 
and seein is vision. The stilyard is an instru- 
ment for weighing. Meakness is a Christian 
grace, and was never esteamed by the heathen. 
The steepel is above the belfry. There was a 
meating of the pierage or nobility. The sick are 
apt to be peavish. 

LESSON LIX. 
Class 19, continued. 

Lifisead oil is made from the seed of flax. 
The indolent must not expect to succede. Our 
expenses must not excede our income. To kareen 
a vessel is to make it lean upon one side. 
Morene is a sort of cloth. The broth must be 
served up in a turene. To venear is to cover 
with a thin coat of richer wood. We beseaeh the 
young to be discrete. A setee is a long seat with 
a back to it. In the carreer of virtue all men 
may be comperes or equals. Many sacrifice health 
and happiness to appear genteele. 



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LESSON LX. 
Class 20. — Words with EA like long E. 
Treecle is another name for molasses. Some 
careless speekers use the word learning for leech- 
ing. A weazel is a long-bodied animal smaller 
than a cat. The teazle is a prickly plant, used to 
raise a nap on cloth. That deeler has a meager 
supply of goods. The heeling art has various 
theories. Be not squeemish or over-nice in small 
matters. Bissextile or leepyear is every fourth 
year. It was a drearey road for a wearey travel- 
ler. His old beever hat looked greazy. Bohee is 
usually called black tea. He was impeeched or 
accused of treason. Do not misleed the simple. 

LESSON LXL 
Class 22. — Words with IE and EI like long E. 
Eather must not be used for each or both. 
Neather must not be pronounced nyther. The 
cieling of the room is over head. Washington 
was a good as well as a great cheiftain. It is 
peirchig cold. A cannon is called a feild-peice. 
Men of liesure should do much good. The siez- 
ure of his property was greivous. A theivish pro- 
pensity must be watched. Grant releif before it 
is asked. Deciei generally works its own ruin. 
Every beleif can not be equally true. 

LESSON LXIL 
Class 22, continued. 
Self-conciet is an offensive sort of pride. Men 
can not decieve their Maker. It is better to give 
than to recieve. To guess does not mean to 
beleive. We concieve more than we acheive or 
perform. The mind percieves through the senses. 
Men should releive each other. The casheer did 
not retreive his loss. We must not aggreive or 
vex others. To repreive a criminal is to put off 
his execution. They paid so much apeice. To 
beseige a city is to surround it with troops. 

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LESSON LXIII. 
Class 24. — Words with O as in Nor. 

Never play with hornetts nor ill-tempered per- 
sons. The corslet was the piece of armor that 
covered the breast. The orbitt of a planet is its 
path round the sun. Some animals spend the 
winter in a state of torper or insensibility. He 
subborned or secretly hired men to say what was 
not true. To endorce a note is to write one's 
name on the back of it. Where there is no con- 
science there can be no remorce. The troops will 
eskort the governor home. The clerk must 
reckord the number of votes. The shortness of 
life exorts us to be active. 

LESSON LXIV. 
Class 25. — Words with 00 as in Cool. 

It is foollish to dispute about matters of taste. 
His compliments were very cooly received. Give 
him only a spoonfull. The letters A. M. stand 
for for?ioon. Let us have a goosberry pie. A 
certain beat of the drum is called the tatoo. The 
babboon has little or no tail. The silk-worm 
winds himself up in a cokoon. No gentleman 
should be a bnfooyi. The baloon rises because it 
is lighter than the atmosphere. A plattoon is a 
rank of soldiers. A piccaroon is a robber. That 
house is both roomey and gloomey. 
LESSON LXY. 
Class 25, continued. 

That lake has a xuoodey shore. The American 
has a goodley heritage. Kerseys are a sort of 
woolen goods. There is no likelehood of its clear- 
ing up. He earned a livlihood by tending the 
wooley race. All the disciples foresook their 
Master. He misstook, but he was not mistaken. 
I wish you would onhook my belt. Some savage 
nations use little or no cookerry. Luxury soon 
gets footin where there is wealth. They all 
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LESSON LXVI. 
Class 27. — Words with OA as long O. 
Old ropes untwisted and picked make okum. 
Most countries have suffered from the inrodes of 
barbarous tribes. A border is not necessarily a 
lodger. A sidebord, is a large piece of parlor fur- 
niture. Otemeal is much used for food in Scot- 
land. His face was bloted by intemperate habits, 
and his appearance lothesome. A turncote is one 
who changes his party. You cannot unlode the 
boat till it is affloat. To bemone a loss does not 
repair it. Never incroach upon another's rights. 

LESSON LXVII. 
Class 28. — Words with O W as long O. 
What shaddows we are, and what shadders we 
pursue. The belows proves that air has solidity. 
It is difficult for a poor widdow to support a large 
family of children. A minow is a very small 
fish. Fathers often disone children, but mothers 
rarely do so. The finder of lost goods must 
remember that he is not the oner of them. Felow 
must not be pronounced feller. Falow land is 
ploughed but not sowed. To, in the word To- 
morow, is a corruption of The. Enter ye in at the 
strait or ?iarow gate. 

LESSON LXVIIT. 
Class 30. — Words with OU as long O. 
Moldy bread is unwholesome. The colter of a 
plough is the cutter. We should sympathize 
with the morners. Some nations wear white for 
morning. Forescore means four times twenty. 
The concorse of people was immense. Forteen 
is a contraction of four and ten. Forefold means 
four for one. Trees fall, and molder, and disap- 
pear. The sholderblade is called by surgeons the 
scapula. A poidtise is also called a cataplasm. 
Domestic fowls are usually called polltry. The 
poor have many resourses left. 



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LESSON LXIX. 
Class 31. — Words with OU as in Bound. 
Boston is in the countey of Suffolk. He suffers 
from his goutty limb. Every man must guard 
his householed. Scoundril is a term of reproach. 
Young ladies must not laugh alloud in the streets. 
He who quarrels with colliers befowls himself. 
To misscount is to count wrong. We see life 
above, beneath and arround us. To carouze is to 
drink immoderately. To renounse a person is to 
disown him; to denounse one is to accuse or 
threaten him. He anounced my name. 

LESSON LXX. 
Class 32. — Words with 01 as in Oil. 
A rude girl is called a hoyden, A dressing 
table is called a toylet. Many paths of duty are 
toilsom. The coinidge of money is a right only 
of the government. Oy?itment, in scripture, often 
means a liquid perfume. A jointyer is a wife's 
portion of her husband's property. Do not be 
noizy. A noysome pestilence is a hurtful one. 
Places for religious retirement are called cloysters. 
A certain piece of beef is called the surloin. 
When you purchase goods, always require an 
invoise of them. To perloi?i is to steal. It is the 
custom to annoint kings. 

LESSON LXXI. 
Class 34. — Words with OY as in Boy. 
The royall prerogative means the king's right. 
The first voiage of Columbus was made in 1492. 
The oister has a heart as well as we. A viseroy 
acts instead of the king. An envoi is a person 
sent by government. Silver is too soft without 
some aloy or baser metal. Our pleasures must 
never anoy our neighbors. The gospel was sent 
not to distroy but to save. Fidelity to govern- 
ment is loialty. Most animals are more joy full 
than man. He was always fully imployed. 



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LESSON LXXII. 
Class 38. — O as 00 in Cool. 

We never moove without assistance. Many 
loose all by grasping too much. That pillar is 
not moveable. Asserting a thing is not proveing 
it. Be up and dooing. Plant no thorn in any 
boozum. He made much adoo about nothing. 
All laws must have the approveal of the governor. 
What new moovment must be made ? You must 
never aprove what is wrong. He dissproved it, 
by showing that it was false. Every disposition 
is improveable. 

LESSON LXXIII. 
Class 35. — Words with U as in Bull. 

Moses was left among the bullrushes. A quar- 
relsome brawler is called a bidley. Sometimes 
the pullpit stands for religion itself, as the bar 
does for law. The rubie is a reddish gem. We 
keep oil or vinegar in a creioet. The priests of 
the ancient Britons were called Dreiuids. Grewti 
is light food for invalids. A tmeism is an asser- 
tion that nobody denies. The bncher kills 
animals for food. An official notice is sometimes 
called a buletin. Proodery is not true modesty. 
Many pronounce Febuary wrong. The croosades 
were religious wars to recover Jerusalem. 

LESSON LXXIV. 

Class 35, continued. 
I value sight too much to peruze a badly 
printed book. An imprudense is not always a 
crime. The color was serulean or sky-blue. 
True liberty is opposed to missmde. Rome is 
great even in mines. A pidly is by seamen called 
a block. A bushil is equal to four pecks. The 
spelling-book teaches the roodiments of pronunci- 
ation. The cross or crusifix is an emblem of our 
religion. To roominate is to think upon. Never 
allow yourself to tell an untrooth. 



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LESSON LXXV. 

Class 35, continued. 

Gracefull manners recommend good morals. 
A pious man should lead a usefull life. An 
awefull thing is not the same as a frightful thing. 
A vicious life leads to a shamefull death. His 
situation was dredful. But one thing is really 
neadful. His early death was a mornful event. 
The cultivated land yields plentyful returns. 
The mercyful man is rnercifull to his beast. It 
is pittiful to reproach a man for the sinfull con- 
duct of his ancestors. Ingratitude is forgitfidness 
of favors received. A dutyful child will be 
blessed. 

LESSON LXXVI. 
Class 39. — Words with IGH as long I. 

Sie not at the loss of what it is improper for 
you to have. The eyes of owls cannot bear the 
lite of day. Draw the cord tite. The lightening 
causes the thunder. Forsight means seeing 
ahead. The twy light is between sunset and dark, 
the aurora or dawn between nite and sunrise. 
Try to speak and act arright. The nightengale 
is not known in New England. Never afright 
children. An uprite man is an honest one. The 
skilight admits light through the roof. Slite 
errors bliie fair prospects. 

LESSON LXXYII. 
Class 40. — Words with O like short U. 

Spiinge is not a vegetable, as some suppose. 
The cumbat was dreadful. Mariners steer by 
the cumpass. A man is judged of by his co?nerads 
or companions. To pummel is to beat and bruise 
severely. Munday is a corruption of moon-day. 
What is the tonage of that ship? An unneat 
man is called a slnven, an unneat woman a 
slattern. His approach was covvert or concealed. 
An honest man duth not spend the monney that 
is entrusted to him. 



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LESSON LXXVIII. 
Class 40, continued. 
The havuc of war is dreadful. I love to hear 
the birds carrol their sweet songs. He wandered 
in the darksom forest. Wellcome, sweet day of 
rest ! Attorns make up worlds. A fathum is six 
feet, or two yards. Upon the blosom depends the 
fruit. A murderer is a fellon. The mellon is a 
rich fruit. A minute contains sixty secconds. 
What are lemmons a dozen? A whim is some- 
times called a magot. A bundle of sticks for 
fuel is called a faggot. 

LESSON LXXIX. 

Class 40, continued. 
The better part of vallor is discretion. One 
part of music is called the tennor. The jurers 
returned a verdict of guilty. A vizor is a sort of 
mask. Saver and Jlaver refer to smell as well as 
taste. Jesus never resented an afront. Some 
disputants mistake clammer for argument. A 
majer is inferior to a colonel. A boastful bully 
is called a heeler. The scidpter carved an image 
of stone. The splender of wealth makes the poor 
discontented. Some persons propose to pay the 
docter only while they are well. 

LESSON LXXX. 
Class 41. — Words loith OU as short U. 
Between the full moon and the quarters, the 
moon appears gibbus or humped. Bulbits plants 
have roots below the bulb. Viscus means glutin- 
ous or sticky. The king wore a gorgeous or 
splendid robe. Hard labor makes the hands cal- 
lus. The liar gives himself dubble trubble. Two 
successive rhymes form a cuplet. A suthern wind 
is usually warm. A turnament is a combat of 
armed knights. War is the skurge of our race. 
Human life is compared to a journy. To sojurn is 
to stay for a time only. Curtesy shows kindness. 



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LESSON LXXXI. 
Class 42. — Words with I like short U. 
The Indians made canoes of burch bark. A 
durge is a lamentation over the dead. To smerk 
is to look affectedly sweet. The traveller died of 
thurst. The little birds were cherping on the trees. 
A cirkle is an emblem of eternity. How much 
does the furkin contain? The sqitirel belongs to 
the same order as the rat. Too much amuse- 
ment becomes irksum. The furmament over head 
is the zenith, that opposite the feet is the nader. 
In Scotland, a church is called a kurk. 

LESSON LXXXII. 
Class 43. — Words in which E final does not 
lengthen the preceding voivel. 
The clouds inennace or threaten rain. A good 
child is a sollace in affliction. A terace is a bank 
of earth. The crevises or cracks of the rock were 
filled. A challice is a sort of drinking cup. The 
boddice is part of a lady's dress. The solstis is 
the farthest point to which the sun goes north or 
south. Practise makes perfect. The door is con- 
cealed by latice work. A surplis is a sort of 
priest's robe. Pnmmice stone is a cinder from 
volcanoes. tSalvedge is an allowance to those 
who find a wreck. The hail did much dammage. 

LESSON LXXXIII. 
Class 43, continued. 
Fortune has a bandidge over her eyes. Steam 
makes the pasage short. Pickled cabage is called 
sour krout. The selvedge is the finished edge of 
cloth. The pressage or warning was not lost. 
Cribage is a game at cards. Spinnage is the 
plant spinach. The voiage was short. The 
plumeage of some birds is beautiful. An effigy is 
the immage of a man. The soldiers forrage 
when they go in search of food. He was raised 
to the pierage or rank of a nobleman. 



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LESSON LXXXIV. 
Class 43, continued. 
He rumaged every closet. He never went to 
colledge. Not a vestidge or mark of Eden re- 
mains. Tortoises, frogs, serpents and lizards, are 
reptils. Cultivation will make steril land fertil 
Vaccin means belonging to a cow. That custom 
is very pristi?z or ancient. That wood fits into 
the mortice or hole cut for it. The elective frcm- 
chize is the right to vote. One Latin version of 
the Bible is called the Vulgait. Never promiee 
what you can not perform. A missii is some- 
thing sent or thrown. 

LESSON LXXXV. 
Class 43, continued. 
The pallate is the seat of taste, and the eye is 
the organ of sight. A serate leaf is notched like 
a saw. A ferrule is a teacher's instrument of 
punishment. Grannite is a mixed or compound 
rock. A letter sent is called a misive. The ollive 
is a valuable fruit. A pasive verb is in fact a 
phrase. A bishop is also called a prellate. The 
pope's ambassadors are called leggats. Congress 
consists of the Sennate and House of Representa- 
tives. A pyraie is a sea-robber. 

LESSON LXXXVL 
Class 44. — Words ending in N preceded by a 
silent vowel. 
Thoughts of death saden the mind. The tiger 
mad-ens at the taste of blood. A bullet has been 
figuratively called a ledden death. Adam was 
placed in the guar den of Eaden. Go when you 
are biden. A paten is a sort of woodden shoe. 
Though he wore mitens, his fingers were frost- 
biten. The vessel was drivven ashore. To dizen 
is to dress gaudily. The ewer is placed in the 
bason. Rasins are dried grapes. Many say 1 
recon or I guess, when they already know. 



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LESSON LXXXVH. 
Class 44, continued. 
Treson is infidelity to government. To Mason 
is to praise highly. It is unlawful to wear con- 
cealed wepons. The gardner opened the gate. 
The prisner without hope will go mad, Venson 
is the flesh of deer. A dennizen is a freeman. 
The garison consisted of a thousand soldiers. 
Favors are too soon forgoten. Yeast is a sort of 
leven. Crimzon is a deep red color. The flesh 
of sheep is called muton. He was made to swal- 
low molton or melted lead, 

LESSON LXXXVIII. 
Class 45. — Words ending in EL or LE ; the E 

being silent. 
You will ravvel that tasel and spoil it. The 
edge of a chissel is bevled. A moreel is a mouth- 
ful or hit of food. He bought a parsel of needels. 
A siuivvel is a cannon that may be turned round. 
Tripple must not be confounded with trebble. To 
scrible is to write carelessly. It is improper to 
goble when you eat. Life is compared to a buble. 
He dislocated or put out of joint his ancle. The 
stars sparkel in the sky. Pickets are said to be 
unwholesome. Babbel is noisy pratle. He splits 
wood with a beatle and wedges. 

LESSON LXXXIX. 
Class 45 , continued. 
To drizzel is almost to rain. A saber is a sort 
of sword. Somber or gloomy views of life are 
wrong. A muscle is a bundle of fibers. That, 
hymn is in short meter or measure. How much 
did the land cost an akre? The weak-minded 
alone see specktres. A bishop's cap is called a 
miter. Niter or salt-pe/er is an ingredient of gun- 
powder. Virtue gives luster to talents. Glass 
suddenly cooled becomes brittel. A confused 
mind is said to be adled. 



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LESSON XO. 
Class 46. — Rule. When the termination ING is 
to be added to icords ending in E, the E must he 
•omitted, except in a feiv words ending in IE, OE, 
or EE, all of which are in Lesson 91. 
He was hriheing the officer to let him escape. 
The fire was r ageing when I left. The vessel's 
bilgeing or leaking caused her loss. Budgeing 
means going. Batheing is indispensable to health. 
The ancient Britons wore little or no clotheing. 
He is always poreing over his lessons. The heat 
is fuseing or melting the glass. Jesus set an 
example of humility by laveing or washing his 
disciples' feet. The frost is riveing or splitting 
the rock. The liquor is oozeing from the cask. 

LESSON XCI. 
Class 46, continued. 
The patient was dieing when the doctor came 
in. Lieing is forbidden in the Scriptures. He 
was tieing the knot. She was hying or hastening 
away. The art of dying cloth is very ancient. 
Is he shooing the horse? The farmer is hoirtg 
his corn and potatoes. The boys were all toing 
the crack to form a straight line. Seing does 
not always lead to believing. He is agreing to 
do what he knows to be wrong. He came near 
singing his hair with the candle. 

LESSON XCIL 
Class 47. — Rule. Words of one syllable ending 
in any doubled consonant, retain both letters 
when a syllable is added; and this ride also 
applies to icords of more than one syllable, if 
the accent be on the last. 

The ebing tide will leave the breakers bare. 
We left them quafing water from the fountain. 
Most animals protect and feed their helpless 
of spring. Speling is an important branch of edu- 
cation. That was a tale of thriling interest. Sktd- 



ling a boat is performed with one oar at the 
stern. The statue was of masive or solid silver. 
Love is the fullftling of the law. Her treses or 
ringlets floated in the breeze. Forfeiting is tel- 
ling beforehand. Posessing money is not posses- 
ing happiness. 

LESSON XCIII. 

Class 47, continued, to show the irregularities of 
words formed from monosyllables ending in LL. 

She was handsome, and, what is better, good 
allso. Allmosl every person has some redeeming 
quality. It is alltogetker wrong to tease ill-tem- 
pered persons. He is skillful and expeditious 
wit hall. The debt was paid by installments or 
portions. The steeple above the bellfru was 
"blown down. Those we love are allways well- 
come. A willftdl child must be subdued. He 
came not to destroy but to fullfill the law. The 
fulfillment of that prophecy is at hand. My 
word shall distill like the dew, saith the Lord. 

LESSON XCIV. 
Class 47. — Exceptions continued. 
Every book should instill virtuous principles. 
Fever is often preceded by unusual chilhiess. We 
must hold fast our integrity untill death. Sal- 
ammoniac will cure the chillblains. The dullness 
of a pupil's mind is rarely improved by beating 
his body. In the fullness of time He appeared 
on earth. Too rich food becomes fidlsome and 
injurious. We should take an interest in the 
wellfare of all men. The crazy man had a hand- 
full of straws. Moses was saved in a little ark 
or box of bullrushes. A spoonfidl is a very 
indefinite quantity. 




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LESSON XCV. 
Class 48.— Rule. Words of one syllable, ending 
in a single consonant \ with a single vowel before 
it, generally double the consonant when another 
syllable is added ; and this rule also applies to 
words of more than one syllable if the accent be 
on the last. 

The trees are buding and the rain is droping. 
The taning of leather is hastened by the chem- 
ists. He is always planing and never perform- 
ing. That instrument emits &jaring sound. He 
is leiing his house, She is pening an answer to 
his letter. The laborer is spliting wood. Gun- 
ing is a dangerous amusement. They forded or 
waded across the stream without vjeting their 
garments. You are steping too fast. Never omit 
doting an i and crossing a t. They went a shop- 
ing. The eagle is flap in g his wings. 

lesson' xcvi. 

Class 48, continued. 
Time is always impeling us onward. Annul- 
ing a law is puling au end to it. The example 
of parents has a controling influence over chil- 
dren. In the begining God, and not chance, 
created the earth. Submiting to Providence is a 
duty about which there should be no demur ing 
or hesitation. The body is fited for earth, and 
the spirit for heaven. He quited his rude com- 
panions. He bloted his book. Flint is generally 
■imbeded in chalk. Peculiar trials are alloted to 
each individual. Riping is a more correct word 
than unriping. 

LESSON xcvn. 

Class 48, continued. — A few words not accented on 
the last syllable double the fined consonant. 
They were appareled in fine linen. The bond 
was canceled by erasing the signatures. He cav- 
iled or found fault unnecessarily. The teacher 
cudgeled his pupil to help his memory. Her hair 
was disheveled or in disorder. A driveler is almost 

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an idiot. The duelist is a murderer. The field 
was enameled with flowers. Check all groveling 
or mean propensities. I have marshaled my clan, 
or set them in order for battle. Marvelous or 
wonderful are thy works, O Lord ! The travelers 
quarreled as they went. The vials were all la- 
beled. True worshipers must worship in spirit as 
well as in truth. 

LESSON XCVIII. 
Class 48, continued. — The past tense of some 
regular verbs is sometimes contracted by putting 
T for ED, but as this gives the verb an irregu- 
lar form , it must be avoided. 
The crowd tost up their hats as they past by 
the hero. Newton watched the apple as, it dropt. 
The robbers stripi the traveller. He spelt the 
words wrong. The dog smelt of every garment 
to find his master's. The officer then slept for- 
ward And snapt his pistol. She tript lightly over 
the grass. We stopt too long. He confest his 
crime. The patriarch blest Jacob instead of Esau. 
The jockey slipt from the saddle. The garment 
was ript to pieces. The cloud-cap/ towers shall 
all dissolve, and leave no wreck behind. 

LESSON XCIX. 
Class 49. — This class is mainly a continuation 

of class 48, and further illustrates the Rule 

given at lesson 95. 

The rabit has long ears. A shoemaker is 
sometimes called a cobler. Bobin is a narrow 
kind of tape. - A pedler is an itinerant or travel- 
ling trader. The worm of some insects is called 
a magot. The wooly tribe have furnished a sub- 
ject for many fables. Woolen goods are dearer 
than cotton. Dr. Johnson wrote a book called 
the Tatler. A matress is more healthful than a 
feather bed. A pinace is a sort of boat. The 
vines are supported by a trelis. Do not mispell 
easy words. 



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LESSON C. 

Class 50. — Words beginning with WH, which are 
too often pronounced badly, as if the H were 
silent* 

Wet the wetstone before you sharpen the knife. 
The wig party are not called so because they 
wear wigs. I wist not how to play the popular 
game of icist. Wile you live, practise no dis- 
honest wiles. He is not a wit the better off for 
his wit. The sot ivines when his wine is spent. 
Who can tell icether the weather will be fair? 
Wither must it be carried that it may not wither ? 
Wen will the surgeons remove that wen ? 
Were were they placed ? Witch of the witches 
was called Hecate 1 

LESSON CI. 
Class 50, continued. 
The wale is not classed among fishes, because 
the female nurses her young. A iviie flag is a sign 
of peaceful intentions. Who never heard of Dr. 
Franklin's wistle? To untile is to cut a stick 
with a pocket knife. It is impolite to wisper in 
company. The Maelstrom is a dangerous wirl- 
pool. A wirlwind is caused by the meeting of 
opposite currents of air. The sickly are apt to 
be loimsical. Weat is a valuable grain. Witch 
of them did it? Wiskey is distilled from barley. 
He had a wipptng for his disobedience. 

LESSON CII. 
Class 51. — Words ending in A. 
An insect in the worm state is called a larvar. 
Sena is a valuable medicine. Micah is a trans- 
parent mineral sometimes used for glass. A 
sopha is a sort of couch. A dogmah is a doctrine 
obstinately defended. The dalia is a beautiful 
flower. The rettina is the network in the eye on 
which the image is painted. Scrop/uda is a dis 
ease. The hiena is not easily tamed. The word 



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umbrilla means a little shade. The molusca are 
soft animals such as inhabit shells. A parabola 
is a geometrical figure. 

LESSON cm. 
Class 53. — Words with UE and EU like long U. 
Glew is made of the skin of certain animals. 
An aigue is a shivering fit or a cold. We do not 
valine water till the well is dry. In law a man's 
children are called his isne. A barbekue is an 
animal, usually a pig, roasted whole. The rezi- 
due, or remains may be thrown aside. The 
neiuter gender is not known in French. How 
many persons spell Teusday wrong ! Plurisy 
is a disease of the membrane that covers the 
lungs. The pictures were sold to amatures. 
The fourth book of the Bible is called Duteron- 
omy. 

LESSON CIV. 

Class 54. — Words with UI variously sounded. 

A man in whom there is no gile or deceit. 
Judas came in the gise or manner of a friend. 
He acted under the gidance of avarice. Miss- 
guided man, he was found gilty. A guittar is a 
stringed instrument. That timber is proper for 
Hiding. The juce of the pear is called perry. 
A since is a passage for water. A nonsute puts 
an end to a lawsoot. Unripe frute is a nusance. 
The frigate has returned from a long cruse. 
A new soldier is called a recroot. The bruized 
reed he did not break. 

LESSON CY. 
Class 55. — Words with EA variously sounded. 
The ded take no plesure in what once tempted 
them. The length and bredth of the relm are 
unknown. The sempstress wants more thred. 
A def person is usually dumb. Be stedfast in 
virtue. A pesant was mowing in the meddoiv. 
It is no longer delicate for a person to say, I swet. 



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The thought of heven is plesant or dredful, as 
men are good or bad. Welth can not purchase 
helth. Do not thretten him with that weppon. 
LESSON CVI. 
Class 55, continued. 
We have herd that story many times. The 
coffin was carried on a herse. Parents yean for 
their absent children. Attend erly to lerning. 
That history required great reserch. He began 
the work in ernest. Some savages know how to 
bake erthen ware. Profane sivareing is forbidden. 
It is our duty to bare and forebear. We had a 
beef stake for brekfast. The young should harken 
to good advice. Her joy was ernest and hartfelt. 
Keep the 6rec# warm on the harth. He left us an 
example of true grateness. 

LESSON CVII. 
Class 1. — Words containing long A. 
We pray for what is good and impricate only 
evil. To derrogate is to take away from. A 
person sent is called a dellegate. To grannidate 
is to separate into grains. The water is satturated 
with salt, when it will dissolve no more. We 
must not seperate morality from religion. The 
potatoe was first found in America. Lemmonade 
is punch without its poison. A serrenade is out- 
door music at night. A line of balusters (not 
banisters) forms a ballustrade. Never dessecrate 
what is sacred. An officer peccidates when he 
robs the public. 

LESSON CVIXI. 
Class 2. — Words containing short A. 
A vaccuum is a place empty even of air. 
Around her neck was hung an ammulet or charm 
against diseases. A cazuist is one who settles 
conscientious questions. Pale-noon is an anna- 
gram of Napoleon's name. The albatros is a 
very large sea-bird. Alkalie is usually called lie 



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by soap-makers. Tea is kept in cannisters. 
Large trees are figuratively called jigantic. The 
enammel is the outer coating of teeth. Allabaster 
is a white, soft kind of limestone. They first 
empannel or select a list of jurors, and then pro- 
ceed to trial. 

LESSON CIX. 

Class 3. — Words with long E. 
You must not use obsoleet or rejected words. 
Alegro means gay or lively. He was a seseder 
from his sect. There was no cohereence in the 
several parts. A vicegerent acts instead of a 
superior. The fathers must antesede or go before 
the sons. He will inierceed for us. That officer 
was superceded, or displaced. Many years must 
inter-men or come between. The work is still 
incompleat. The Coloseum or Coliseum is an 
ancient building of Rome. Incoherance means 
want of union. 

LESSON CX. 

Class 4. — Words with short E. 
Certain spiritual beings are called chemibim. 
A deccagon is a geometrical figure with ten sides. 
An exorsist pretends to drive out evil spirits. 
Recompence to no one evil for evil. How long 
has he occupied the prentices or buildings ? Uten- 
cil was once applied only to cooking apparatus. 
The Eclecktic Review is one selected from others. 
He loves polemmic or controversial writings. An 
allembic is sometimes called a still. Who could 
bear the intenceness of the cold? Circles within 
circles are said to be consentric. 

LESSON CXI. 

Class 5. — Words with long I. 

Nytrogen gas will destroy life. A bishop's see 

or district is called his diosess. Anthrasite coal 

is harder than bituminous. Reccondite learning 

requires deep research. A dependant flatterer is 



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called a parracite. The dropping lime-water hard- 
ened into stallactites resembling icicles. Paradice 
is the supposed abode of the blessed. A hyatus is 
a gap or break in a sentence. The horison is 
where sky and land appear to meet. To coinside 
is to come together or agree. The committee 
must faithfully supervize or oversee the schools. 

LESSON CXII. 

Class 6. — Words with short I. 

The minnvet is a sort of dance. Whoso would 
be greatest among you, let him be your minnister 
or servant. Minnaret is the spire of a Turkish 
mosque. The pikerel is a voracious fish. Fish 
and insects are more prolific than the higher 
animals. He intended to manumitt or free all 
his slaves. The Romans called an omen seen on 
the left hand sinnister or unlucky. He was 
bigotted but not cruel. Ricketty children should 
bathe often. We could not resist the wichery of 
her song. A cittadel is the fortress commanding 
a city. 

LESSON CXIII. 

Class 7. — Words with long O. 
He was distinguished for his drolery. The gift 
of tongues, or languages, took place on the day 
of Pentecoast. A man-hater is called a missan- 
thrope. Astrologers made plans of the heavenly 
bodies called horroscopes. Helebore was an herb 
much used in witchcraft. Morover, brethren, be 
ye steadfast. He was hopefaly studious. Do 
you prefer beef allamode to bacon ? Such minute 
animals are only to be seen with a mycroscope. 
Remote objects are brought nearer by the telles- 
cope. The antilope belongs to the goat kind. 
Octobre means the eighth month, for the year 
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LESSON CXIY. 
Class 8. — Words containing short O. 
The Bunker Hill monument in shape is an 
obbelisk. An occulist attends to diseases of the 
eye. A corronet is a sort of crown. Every 
violent death is inquired into by the corroner. 
Some bottanists have been good morrallists. An 
acrosstic is a short poem in which the first letters 
of every line form a name or other word. Bad 
men generally wish to abollish all laws. A 
laconnic expression is a very brief one. The 
lonnic is a Grecian order of architecture. It is 
i?npropper to laugh at the unfortunate. Narcottics 
are drugs that produce sleep. Exottics are plants 
brought from other climates. 

LESSON CXV. 
Class 9. — Words with long U. 
The ncwclens of a comet is the denser part 
from which the tail proceeds. A life of piety 
must be a life of usefullness. Litterature is not 
all equally valuable. The Septewagint is a 
Greek translation of the Old Testament. Habit 
or habittude has been called a second nature. 
The boldness is only equalled by the tnrpetude 
or baseness of the action. Avoid all ungraceful 
atitudes. The vestebule or entrance was never 
closed. He crept through an appertvre in the 
wall. An office of profit that requires no labor 
is a synecnre. 

LESSON CXVL 

Class 56. — Words tolth short I at the end of unac- 
cented syllables. 
A radeus is a line drawn from the centre to the 
circumference of a circle. Three is an alliquot 
or even part of twelve. She preferred a callico 
dress. The cappitol is the chief building of the 
capital. The bazelisk is a fabulous reptile. 
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The cup of vicious pleasure has a bitter seddiment. 
A centinel is a soldier on guard. A short poem 
ending in a witty point is an eppigram. Having 
no hair he wore a perriwig. 

LESSON cxvn. 
Class 56, continued. 
A simmile is a sort of comparison, ^irritis is 
the name of the dog-star. He made a codecil or 
addition to his will. An oblegor is the person 
brought under an obligation by contract. Lasi- 
fer is one name of the planet Yenns. His loss 
was remedyless. A tiled roof is imbrecated. To 
devorce is to unmarry. The common sensoream 
or brain is a conjeries or collection of organs. 
They sawed down the pallisades or fence of 
stakes. An annimalcule is a very minute animal. 

LESSON CXVIII. 
Class 56, continued. 
To spoleaie is to plunder. Better give up 
trifles than to littigate or contend at law. We 
may mittigate evils by mutual kindness. True 
religion sublemates the mind. The huricane is 
over. Homiside is the killing of any human 
being. Suecide is self-murder. Fratrecide is the 
killing of one's brother. An eppisode is a story 
incidentally introduced. Oil is an antedole or 
remedy for some poisons. Christianity forbids 
us to retalliate. Habit facilUtates the performance 
of our duty. 

LESSON CXIX. 
Class 57. — Words ending in ISM. 

It is a trueism to say that man is mortal. A 
sollecism is an improper use of words. An angle- 
cism is an English form of expression. A witi- 
cism is seldom worthy of critticism. There was 
a misticism or want of clearness in his remarks. 
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A fit is sometimes called a paroxism. A sylogism 
is a term in logic. Pollytheism is the belief in 
many gods. Empyricism means quackery. Man 
is called a mycrocosm, or little world. 

LESSON CXX. 

Glass 11. — Words coiiiainhig Y long. 

Hidrogen gas is one constituent of water. A 
family or line of kings is called a dinasty. The 
apostles made many proselites or converts. Tro- 
ghdites are persons who live in caves. Medicine 
to relieve pain is called an annodyne. To annal- 
ize a sentence is sometimes called parsing it. 
Barites is a heavy kind of earth. The science 
that treats of moving fluids is called hydrawlics. 
The longest side of a right angled triangle is the 
hipotenuse. We measure the moisture of the 
atmosphere with hidrometers. He was too cap- 
tious or hipercriiicah 

LESSON CXXL 

Class 11, continued. — Rule. When either EST, 
ES, ETH, or ED, is to be added to a word ending 
in Y, the Y is changed into I : as. Cry, Criest, 
6fc. 

Thou art unwise if thou cryest before thou 
try est. David defyed the giant. Peter denyed 
his Master. He supply eth all our wants. The 
treaty was rattified or officially confirmed. A 
kind act g ratify s the doer of it. Heat rarefy s or 
thins the air. FY, at the end of words, generally 
signify s to make. Piety dignifyeth every em- 
ployment. Fire vitrefyed the sand, or made glass 
of it. Wood has been petrify ed or turned to 
stone. Sometimes an artery ossify s or turns to 
bone. Kindness mollify eth or softeneth anger. 
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LESSON CXXII. 
Class 11, continued. 

He prys into everything. He amplefys or 
enlarges. The tree ramifyed or branched out. 
His face was greatly scarefyed or scarred. Men 
have deifyed their benefactors, or called them 
gods. The event verrifyed the prediction, or 
testyfied to its truth. Heat vivifys or gives life 
to the sleeping seed. An honest mind forty- 
Jieth a feeble body. The prudent man ocupyeth 
every moment. Vice villifys or makes its victims 
vile. The motion of the sea clarify s it. He 
rectify 'eth every error instead of denying that he 
has made it. 

LESSON CXXIII. 

Class 12. — Words with Y short like I in Pin. 

A cilinder is a circular body flat at the two 
ends. The simetry of a figure is the just propor- 
tion of its parts. Hearing depends mainly upon 
the timpanum or drum of the ear. A sincope is a 
fainting fit. Sinthesis collects parts into a whole, 
and anallysis separates a whole into its parts. 
A hippocrite is worse than an open villain. The 
Stigean flood was the fabulous river Styx. The 
piramids of Egypt have outlived the names 
of their builders. No man may tyranize over 
the conscience of another. Some minerals do not 
cristalize. Sistolee is the shortening of a long 
syllable. 

LESSON CXXIY. 

Class 12, continued. 
A labbyrinth is a mazy path. The coppyist 
made many errors. A pollygloi Bible is properly 
a Bible in several languages. The pollypus is 
an animal of the order Mollusca. Oxegen is the 
living principle of air. A presbitter is an officer 
in the church. The sardonix is a sort of precious 
stone. In his paroxisms or fits of rage, he did 



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not spare his friends. The amethist is a gem of 
a purple color. jSinonimes are words of similar 
meaning. Piryles are crystals of the sulphate of 
iron. Dispepsy is a disease of the digestive 
organs. 

LESSON CXXY. 
Class 12, continued. 

He promised secrcsy. The order of bishops is 
called the prellacy. Lethergy means drowsiness. 
Some churches use a litturgy or form of public 
worship. Let us greatfully acknowledge our 
blessings. Appathy is want of feeling. Let us 
only fight in the pannoply or armor of the Gospel. 
The littany is a set form of prayer. Fancy is 
sometimes called fantacy. Never let your feealty 
or fidelity to the Lord of all, be doubted. We 
reason from anallogy when we conclude that, as 
this world is peopled, other worlds may be also. 
Avoid monotiony or reading in one continued tone. 

LESSON CXXVI. 

Class 12, continued. — Rule. Nouns ending in Y 
having a consonant before it, form the plural by 
changing Y into I and then adding ES; as, 
Fly, Flies. 

The malady s of the mind are worse than those 
of the body. Parody s are burlesque imitations 
of serious compositions. Some remmedys are 
worse than the disease itself. Eligies are funeral 
songs. Crimes punishable by death are called 
fellonys. Harmony s and melhdies were inter- 
mixed. Lottery s are seldom better than larceny s 
or roberies. Astronomy is explained by orerys. 
From the numerous theory s of education one 
might suspect that there were no facts. Heresys 
are departures from an established faith. 



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LESSON CXXYII. 

Class 12, continued. — Rule. Nouns ending in 

Y with a vowel before it, form the plural by ad- 
ding S without changing the Y ; as, Key, Keys. 
Henry VIIL abolished abbies and convents. 

The viceroies were attended by countless lackies. 
The jockies could not manage the donkies. The 
larder displays turkies and geese. Criminals in 
France are confined in a sort of public vessels 
called gallies. The vallies are overflowed. The 
public monies are no where safe from peculation. 
It is the custom to fire several vollies over the 
grave of a soldier. The kidnies are among the 
lower viscera. Chimnies are seldom seen in hot 
climates. A king of England died of excess in 
eating la/mpries. 

LESSON CXXVIII. 

Class 12, continued. — Rule. When ER, EST 
or LY, is added to toords ending in Y short, the 

Y is changed into I : as, Lofty, Loftier, Lof- 
tiest, Loftily. 

A greedyer boy cannot be found. That was 
the lucky est number. The best child is, the love- 
lyest. He was no happyer for all his wealth. 
Laborers are often merryer than their employers. 
The Bible is the holy est of books. The ass is 
not the lazyest of animals. How clumzily he 
handles his tools. She is too daintyly fed to be 
healthy. The rosyest cheek may be -the first to 
fade. It is easyer to praise virtue than to prac- 
tise It, The mightyest men have often become 
the most feeble. She may be uglyer than her 
sister, but she is far more amiable. 

LESSON CXXIX. 
Class 58. — Words with A not unlike short U. 
He received a gold meddal for his scholarship. 
The leaves of a flower are called pettals. The 

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winning horse was adorned with ribbands. He 
paid the ballance of the account. He did pen- 
nance for his offences. A man who displays his 
learning is called a peddant. Young persons 
should never be pert or flippant. The Viccar ot 
Bray changed with the changes of government. 
The sedar wood is durable and aromatic. Gram- 
mar was made after language was matured. 
The heathen gods fed on ambrosia and drank 
meter. 

LESSON CXXX. 

Class 58, continued. 
The crop of a bird holds the corn till the giz- 
ard is ready to grind it. A lizzard is called a 
reptile. A male witch is called a ivizzard. An 
atlass is a collection of maps. He had no biass 
for his profession., and, of course, was not distin- 
guished. Where the carcas is the crows are 
gathered together. The anchor was raised by a 
wheel called the windlas. We have no right to 
tresspas upon the property of others. Man 
belongs to the bippedal or two-footed race. He 
is a linneal or direct descendant of William the 
Conqueror. A litteral translation is seldom an 
elegant one. 

LESSON CXXXL 

Class 5S, continued. 
There are hinderances in every path. Toller- 
ance is not yet fully understood in religious matters. 
There is no discreppance or disagreement between 
the accounts. An anular eclipse leaves only a 
ring of light. The earth is not flat, but globbular. 
Those who saw Jesus after his death, had occtdar 
proof of his resurrection. Some portions of plants 
are celular or full of minute cells. Seccular pur- 
suits are those apart from religion. A veneal 
offence is not a serious one. The pellican was 
once supposed to feed her young from her own 
breast. An arlizan is a mechanic. 



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LESSON CXXXII. 
Class 58, continued. 

The jury gave a verdict of acquital. The ca- 
rowsal led to much contention. A people may be 
oppressed beyond endureance. The price of ad- 
mitance is inconsiderable. The sending of money 
is called a rernitance. One who denies that the 
king is the head of the church is called a recuse- 
ant. An invention is more than a contriveance. 
The observeance of days of fasting and thanks- 
giving is voluntary. Gratitude is the remember- 
mice of favors received. Abstain from even the 
abearance of evil. 

LESSON CXXXIII. 

Class 59. — Words with ER like UR, short. 

To er is human. The cups and sawcers are 
not matched. A merser is a dealer in silks. 
Commerse was the child of necessity and enter- 
prise. Moses traverced the Red Sea but not the 
Jordan. The opinions are very divers or differ- 
ent. The euberty or richness of tropical soils is 
well known. He did not write his order, but 
gave it vei^baly. He suffers from vertego or dizzi- 
ness. A perpendicular is not necessarily vertickal. 
Verditter is a greenish paint. An iniiger is a 
whole number and not a fraction. 
LESSON CXXXIV. 
Class 59, continued. 

We cannot coerse or compel men to think as 
we do. To immerce is to plunge under water, to 
amerse is to fine. We have no right to asperce or 
slander even our enemies. An hiperboly is too 
strong an expression. A man's native language 
is his vernaccular tongue. The timid are easily 
disconserted. Oaks were occasionally inter sperced 
•or scattered between. All nations do not interr 
the dead. The lines deverge or separate from a 
common point. The reverce of a coin or medal 
is not that side on which the head is stamped. 



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LESSON CXXXV. 
Class 60. — Words ending in IZE or ISE. 

Flattery does not agrandize or make men great. 
Salt will crystalise in the sun. To paralize is to 
deprive of feeling and motion. Time equallizes 
conditions. To tantalise is to mock with false 
expectations. Religion tranquilizes or calms the 
passions. Shakespeare drammatized the tales of 
other writers. We must not criticize unfairly. 
In England the asizes are sessions of the court. 
Never refuse to recognize an humble but virtuous 
friend. The term merchandize includes all goods 
and wares. 

LESSON CXXXV1. 

Class 43. — Words in which the final E does not 
lengthen the preceding vowel, these words being 
exceptions to the general rule. 
A state of vasalage is but little better than 
slavery. Musilage is the slimy or viscous sub- 
stance derived from plants. Viscinage means 
neighborhood. Jesus was of the linneage or 
family of David. We sent him a tripplicate or 
third copy of the letter. Choccolate is cocoa 
mixed with oil or butter. The poet lawreate is 
the king's poet. The uliemate or smallest possi- 
ble particles of all matter are supposed to be 
round. Invetterate habits are obstinate ones. The 
penultemate is the last syllable but one. 

LESSON CXXXVII. 
Class 43, continued. 
The inter stises, or holes between, were all filled. 
An armistis is a cessation of warfare. Lickerice 
is a valuable root. The purest clay is called 
allumine. Masculin women are seldom amiable. 
That remark was very aposit or fit. A cucurbitt 
is a chemical vessel shaped like a gourd. The 
idle merit chastisment. Bisextile is the same as 
leap-year. Most vices are very expencive. Igno- 



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ranee is subvercive of liberty. Fresh air is conclu- 
sive to health. Avoid coersive measures till others 
haye been tried. 

LESSON CXXXYIIL 
Class 43 , continued. 
A dentrefice is a tooth-powder. An orrifice is 
an opening. Dicipline the mind betimes. A 
sicairice is a scar. Potash and soda are alcaline 
substances. Jelatine is that part of bones which 
may be burned. His excuse was paliative but 
not sufficient. Some philosophers reason by the 
interogative method only. Too much medecine 
produces disease. The Peruvian bark is ante- 
febrile or opposed to fever. His opinions were 
very versatil or variable. His addresses were 
always hortativ or full of entreaty. 

LESSON CXXXIX. 
Class 43, continued. 

The water issued from a jisure or cleft of the 
rock. He had no lesiere for idleness. The siez- 
ure of his property was unjust. The rasure or 
erasing of the name was the work of a moment. 
A joynture is a wife's estate. The book of hu- 
man wisdom is a small volyuine. A suiture is a 
seam where certain bones unite. No man's ten- 
yure or hold on life is certain. The feeiures of 
the son resemble those of the sire. Such retalia- 
tory mesures will lead to war. 

LESSON CXL. 
Class. 45. — Words ending in LE or RE. 

Arrable land is such as may be ploughed. The 
parrables of Jesus have never been equalled. A 
salifiable disease is one that may be cured. His 
position is not tsnnable or can not be maintained, 
because the facts are not probbable. A franjible 
thing may be broken. Wheat and rye are eddi- 
ble fruits. The rizible propensity is the propen- 
sity to laugh. Metals are melted in a crusible or 



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earthen pot. Gums are solluble in water and 
resins in spirit. The pinacles of the temple glis- 
tened in the sun. The lower chambers of the 
heart are called ventrecles, 

LESSON CXLI. 
Class 45, continued. 
A blister on the skin is called a vessicle. A 
stalactite resembles an isicle. The ancient thea- 
ters had no roofs. A joint of the back-bone or 
spine is called a verteber. The masacre of the 
crew was dreadful. Women went first to the 
sepulcre of our Lord. Nothing can enoble those 
who have no self-respect. He was ennobled to 
live and help his friends. It is easier to confess 
than to disemble. Chains for the hands and fet- 
ters for the feet are called mannacles. 

LESSON CXLIL 
Class 45. — Rule. When ABLE or IBLE is ad- 
ded to words already ending in E, the E is 
omitted, unless CE, GE or EE comes before 
ABLE, when the E is retained to prevent a 
false pronunciation of the word. 
Ice is not saleable in winter. His conduct was 
blameable. The hyena is said not to be tameable. 
Wishes are neither rateable nor titheable property. 
He was a sizeable boy, but not very servicable. 
Most persons are senseible to ridicule. How force- 
ible are right words ! She was a noteable house- 
wife, and a very agreable woman. Some metals 
are more fuseible than others. The shelves are 
all moveable. The address was admireable and 
its sentiments were peacable. 

LESSON CXLIIL 

Class 45. — The same Rule continued. 

Gold is not compareable to iron for utility. Few 

medicines are palateable. Platina is valueable for 

its infuseible quality. I saw nothing noticeable 

in his conduct. Profanity is always censureable 



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and never excuseable. It is not reputeable to be 
so changable. That is so disputeable a question 
that it is not adviseable to agitate it. The laws 
of God are not reverseible by man, however disa- 
greable. Many words not easily defineable are 
well understood. His disgrace was not charga- 
ble or imputeable to any one else. 
LESSON CXLIV, 
Class 45. — The same Ride continued. 

It was observeable that he never laughed. His 
crimes were tracable to his education. It is de- 
sireable that all men should be instructed. The 
horse was unmana gable. No human being can 
be adoreable. Few commodities are not damaga- 
ble. All the virtues are resolveable into love. 
Few minds are so good as not to be improveable. 
She was inconsoleable after his death. Money 
was easily procureable. 

LESSON CXLV. 

Class 46. — When ING is added to words ending 

in E the E is omitted; as, Abide, Abiding. 

Children should avoid defaceing their books. 
Retraceing a vicious course is more difficult than 
avoiding it. They were recedeing from their 
own opinions, and accedeing to ours. The mem- 
bers were conveneing when we arrived. Adhere- 
ing to error is a better proof of consistency than 
of wisdom. The world is kept in shape by the 
cohereing of its particles. He is CGmpleteing his 
work. Subscribeing is writing under, superscribe- 
ing is writing upon. Prescribeing is directing, 
and proscribeing is dooming to death. 
^ LESSON CXLVI. 
Class 46. — The same Rule continued. 

Repineing at losses does not repair them. He 
is reaiseing his works. Conniveing at crime is 
the same as committing it. Forebodeing evil 
often prepares the way for it. The rust is cor- 
rodeing the metal. Endorseing is loriteing one's 



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name on the back of an obligation. We can not 
improve our own characters by tradueeing those 
of other persons. We can not hope to succeed 
without practiseing. He spent his life in refute- 
in g errors and promoteing the cause of truth. 

LESSON CXLVII. 
Class 46. — The same Rule continued. 

He forgave him without alludeing to his offence. 
Avoid estrangeing the affection of any one. The 
magpie is famed for secreteing things it can never 
want to use. The moon is edipseing the sun. 
He is always presageing misfortunes. He as- 
sumed a menaceing or threatening attitude. By 
solaceing the miseries of others our own hearts 
are made better. By issueing more bills than it 
can redeem with specie, the bank is debaseing the 
currency. 

LESSON CXLYIIL 

Classes 2, 4, 6 and 8. — Short voivels accented. 

An epittome is an abridgment. Arithmetic is 
an important study. A venlrilloquist speaks from 
his throat. A thermomiter measures the heat of 
the atmosphere, and a barorrwneter its weight. 
Tropical plants are more arromatic than ours. A 
peddobaptist is one who baptizes children. The 
antipenult is the last syllable but two. Ostiohgy 
treats of the bones. Metier ic stones are those 
which fall from the sky. The astrolloger told 
fortunes by the stars. 

LESSON CXLIX. 
Classes 12 and 56. — I and Y short, as I in Pin. 
Ideocy is one grade of insanity. Never reply 
with acremony or bitterness. The metal ante- 
mony is used in medicine. Eppilepsy is some- 
times called the falling-sickness. Who has 
not felt the inannity or emptiness of human 
pride? He was distinguished for his urbanniiy 
or courteous manners. Hillarity or cheerfulness 



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promotes health. She was remarkable for the 
amenety or agreeableness of her disposition, as 
much as he was for the asperrity or harshness of 
his. 

LESSON CL. 
Classes 12 and 56, continued. 

Coldness produced rigiddity or stiffness. Chil- 
dren should avoid all appearance of avidety or 
greediness. Mobillity means capability of being 
moved. The ductillity of iron enables it to be 
drawn out into threads of remarkable tennuity or 
fineness. The apparent size of bodies depends 
upon their propinquety or nearness. The sermon 
was only remarkable for its prolyxity or tedious 
length. There may be innocent amusement 
without frivolllty. Some eyes look upon this 
beautiful world as upon vacuitty or emptiness. 
LESSON CLI. 
Classes 12 and 56, continued. 

Punctuallity is almost a virtue. Liherallity 
should not degenerate into prodegalety. Consan- 
guinity means kindred. Bear pain with patience, 
and misfortunes with equanimety . The governor 
acted with great imbesility or weakness. The 
indocillity of the child often arises from the mis- 
management of the teacher. "Contiguitty of 
shade" means shade that is unbroken. Volubil- 
ety seldom accompanies profound thought. Salt 
is remarkable for its sohibillity ', or capability of 
being dissolved. 

LESSON CLII. 

Classes 12 and 56. — A as in FAT, before RY, 

CY and LY. 

The birds in the aveary are all well, but the 
bees in the apeary are all benumbed. Pulmon- 
ery diseases affect the lungs. Febnary is the 
shortest month. Lapedary lines are lines cut in 
stone. A mersenary army is one that is hired. If 
he looked on, he was accesary to the crime. The 



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dispensery distributes medicine gratis. A devia- 
tion from the common rule is an anomily. The 
twenty-ninth of February is an inter callary day. 
Good laws are subsidiery to good morals. 
LESSON CLIII. 

Class 40. — Words with O short, as U in Tub. 

Every language has its idiums or peculiarities. 
To comliness of person add neatness of attire. 
The cumbatants were not easily separated. A 
summerset is a complete overturn. The musk- 
mellon is improperly called mushmelon. The 
dimond is the hardest of gems. His brother was 
a batchelor. Sweet marjoram is a savery herb. 
The dandylion is a medicinal plant. Asbestus is 
a fibrous mineral. A lawyer is also called an 
atturney. Aluvion is land washed up by water. 
LESSON CLIY. 
Class 40, continued. 

Allimony is an allowance to a wife. Ill-judged 
parsemony leads to prodigality. The drumedary 
is smaller than the camel. The Arabs carry on 
a preddatory warfare. The monks sleep in their 
dormetories. A reppertory is a sort of. literary 
magazine. A dispensatorry or pharmacopoeia is 
a book that describes medicines. A refectory is 
an eating room. Human life is trancitory. He 
delivered the valledictory or farewell address. 

LESSON CLV. 
Class 41. — Words with OU like short U in Tub. 

The aged are garulous or talkative. Com- 
plainers are querrulous. Such conduct is villain- 
ous. A. bird's leg is tendinus or sinewy. That 
sunset was gorjus. The humor in front of the 
eye is aquious or watery, and that in the back 
part is vitrious or glassy. Lignious acid comes 
from wood. The head of Medusa was hiddeus. 
That burden was ononis or heavy. Some miner- 
als feel unktuous or oily. The hypocrite, like 
the serpent, prefers a sinnuous course. 



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LESSON CLVL 
Class 41, continued. 

The liquid was both acetus or soar, and salinus 
or saltish. Diseases of the skin are called cnta- 
nious. A terraquious globe is one composed of 
land and water. Some substances when mingled 
produce fire, and this is called spontanious com- 
bustion. Calcarious rocks are composed of lime. 
His taste is so fastideous that he is never suited. 
Gregareous animals live in flocks or herds. He 
was too manly to be obsequeous. The roof was 
slated and imperveous to the rain. A word is 
a?iomilous } when it departs from all rules. 
LESSON CLYII. 
Class 41, continued. 

An anonimous letter is one not signed by the 
writer. Sinonymous words are words having the 
same meaning. An unvaried tone is said to be 
monottonous. Animals that lay eggs are oviper- 
ous, those that do not, are viviperous. Camiverovs 
animals feed on flesh, the herbiverous feed on 
grass, and the graniverous on grain. His arrival 
was fortuitous or accidental. Decidduous plants 
fall or decay every year. Contiguus houses 
touch each other. Things composed of one sub- 
stance only are homogenms. 

LESSON CLVIII. 
Class 41, continued. 

Highly seasoned food is deletereus or hurtful. 
The poppy is a soporiforous plant, producing 
sleep. His conduct was pusilanimous or cow- 
ardly, but hers was highly meretorious. Parsi- 
moneous or stingy persons are seldom respected. 
Mixed substances form a hetterogenius compound. 
The flash and the report were simidtanious. His 
services were always gratuetous or unpaid for. 
Her wrinkles and her youthful dress are incong- 
gruous or unsuited to each other. The reading 
of young persons should not be so miscelaneous. 



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LESSON CLTX. 

Class 15. — Words with AI as long A. 

The Nayades were fabulous water-nymphs. 
The darymaid has purchased some vessels of 
porcelane. The proper maintainance of his fam- 
ily is the duty of every man. Bills of attaindre 
are not allowed by the constitution. We could 
not assertain the price. To whom do those privi- 
leges appurtahi or belong ? Complazant man- 
ners are more engaging than personal charms. 
The apraiser fixed a price upon every article. 
Such traiterous conduct will not go unpunished. 
A portrayture is a picture or description. 

LESSON CLX. 

Class 16. — Words with AU as A in Fall. 

His arguments were plaivsihle but not sound. 
Naictical books relate to navigation. The paw-city 
of words means the small number of them. Chil- 
dren should avoid sauceiness and impertinence. 
A good or bad sign is called an awgnry. Law- 
dajium is a liquid preparation of opium. An 
eppaidet is a shoulder ornament. An aeronaut is 
one who navigates the air. A cawliflower is a 
sort of cabbage. Hydraiclics treats of fluids in 
motion. A mawsoleum means a splendid tomb. 

LESSON CLXI. 

Class 19.— Words with EE like long E. 

Filligree is a sort of delicate net- work in gold 
or silver. It is better to honor one's peddigree 
than to boast of it. When the moon is nearest 
to the earth she is in perrigee ; and when farthest 
off, in appogee. Always act discretely. The 
person who receives a bequest is a leggatee. A 
dictionary of places is called a gazeleer. That 
occurrence was unforseen. Chanticlear is not 
classed with singing birds To fricasee chickens 
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LESSON CLXII. 
Class 20. — Words with EA like long E. 
. Men strive too egerly for riches. An action 
that can not be done is not feesible. The presi- 
dent can be removed by impeechment. Arearage 
is what remains due. Cotchineal is an insect of 
a beautiful red color. All objects disapear at a 
certain distance. A misd&menor repeated often 
becomes a serious offence. They were eazily 
reconciled. Some persons mistake wearyness for 
disease. Cultivate a teechable disposition. Inde- 
feesible rights are those never to be taken away. 
Never overeach the simple. 

LESSON CLXIIT. 

Class 22. — Words with IE or EI like long E. 

The Pleeades are a cluster of stars in the con- 
stellation Taurus. He did his task leasurely. 
The theivishly inclined should be removed from 
temptation. The frontispeice should face the title- 
page. Mischeivous children must be restrained. 
The deciever seduced or inviegled them. A re- 
ciever of stolen goods is as bad as the theif. One 
who dispossesses another is, in law, a dissiezor. 
Well educated youths are never concieted. The 
decietful are sometimes deceaved. Notes recieva- 
ble are notes due to us. 

LESSON CLXIV. 
Class 22, continued. 
He had no concievable object. The Indians did 
not record their own acheivments. The aggreiv- 
ance was redressed. Sculptures in basso-releivo 
or bass-releif are raised, but not to their full pro- 
portions. The loss of wealth is retreivable^ that 
of character is not. That cavaleer became a 
brigadeer general. That grenadear was a good 
cannoneir also. The treasurer is a good financeer. 
The cordeleirs wore cords for girdles. What sane 
person can disbeleive in the existence of God? 

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LESSON CLXV. 
Class 31. — Words loith OU as in Bound. 

The cownsellers advise the governor. A coun- 
terpin is also called a coverlet. The laws of 
God are parramount or superior to those of man. 
Silence is sometimes tantemount or equal to con- 
fession. The science of acowsticks relates to 
sound. Who were present at the espowsals or 
betrothment of the princess? There was a great 
car ow sal at the wedding. There are motmtabanks 
in every profession. The general coiontermanded 
or changed his orders. There is a bounteful sup- 
ply for man and beast. 

LESSON CLXVI. 

Classes 33 and 35. — 01 as in Oil, and EA as E 

in Met. 

The informer is to have a moyeiy or half of the 
fine. One scale should counterpois or balance the 
other. The motion of the moon is cycloydal. A 
rejoynder is a reply to an answer. He was sent 
to recconnoiter the enemy's camp. Steddyness in 
youth leads to confidence. A ready ness to com- 
mit to memory is no proof of scholarship. Clenli- 
ness is essential to health. He ernestly requested 
them to come erlier. The rehersal precedes the 
performance. Repeated endevors rarely fail to 
succeed. We should express displesure at what 
is wrong. 

LESSON CLXVII. 

Class 45. — Words ending in Able and Ible. 

Sin is not expeable without repentance. His 
anger was implakable or could not be appeased. 
An impalperble powder is not gritty to the touch. 
An impreggnable fortress cannot be taken. The 
ways of Providence are i?iscrutible, or not to be 
detected. An inexerable judge can not be moved 
to mercy. Religion should be inseperable from 
morality. An insuperrable objection can not be 
overcome. Lidiibittable signs can not be doubted. 



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LESSON CLXVIIL 
Class 45 , continued. 
Laws are indispensible in every community. 
The evidence was incontestable and the prisoner 
was convicted. The Christian should be inde- 
fattigable, or never tired. Death is more elligible 
than disgrace. Any coHgible fault may be cor- 
rected. None are inf alible but those who never 
can mistake. Profanity is not compatable with 
reverence. The fort was no where accessable. 
One metal is not conversable into another. The 
ostensable object was not the real one. Indellihle 
ink can not be erased. 

LESSON CLXIX. 

Class 12. — Words toith Y as short I in Pin. 

A word of two syllables is called a disyllabic 
Some churches are regulated by a presbittery. 
That beautiful cemrnetery makes death appear 
less dreadful. That sinopsis contains the heads 
of the lecture. Hypocricy is more difficult than 
honesty. Metonnymy is a figure of rhetoric. The 
monument is symetrical or well proportioned. 
Poligamy is the having of more than one wife. 
The book of Revelation is sometimes called the 
Apocalipse. Many things once misterious are 
now understood. The polianthos is a sort of 
primrose. 

LESSON CLXX. 
Class 12, continued. 

A paironimic is a name derived from the name 
of one's father. A word of only one syllable is 
a nionnosillable. Etimology treats of the deriva- 
tion of words. The refrangibiUity of a ray of 
light is its capability of being bent. A hipothesis 
is a theory or plan not yet tried. Such conduct 
was tyranical. A common funnel has a cyllin- 
drical form. The disentary prevails in the fruit 
season. The paralitic or palsied man stood up. 



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LESSON CLXXI. 

Class 52. — Words ending in Ence and Ent. 

All can not attain to wealth or opulance. Medi- 
cine could not check the virulance of the poison. 
Always aim at eccellence. Treat superiors with 
defference. What is the diference between them? 
That is a suculent or juicy plant. Escidant vege- 
tables are edible or eatable ones. If an artery is 
cut, bind a lygameni above it ; if a vein, below it. 
The fdlaments or threads are fine as silk. The 
suppliment was added to complete the work. 
The river is refluant or flows back. 

LESSON CLXXII. 

Class 52, continued. 

The angle of insidence is equal to the angle of 
reflection. The exegences of indegence are nume- 
rous. The oreient is the east and the Occident is 
the west. Difident persons must not be ridiculed. 
The teeth of animals differ according to their 
alliment or food. The devergence of two lines is 
their separation from the same point. The cohe- 
rance of particles is greater in hard bodies than 
in soft ones. He held wine in great abhor ence. 

LESSON CLXXIII. 

Class 52, continued. 

That is the quintescence of the sublime. The 
cattle were all recumbant or lying down. That 
town lies adjasent or near to the river. The sub- 
jasent strata are the layers underneath. Translu- 
sent bodies transmit light, but are not transparent. 
The rich and poor are mutually dependant. The 
endorsment on the note was forged. The disburs- 
ment or expenditure of the money was entrusted 
to the treasurer. A vicegerant acts instead of 
another. Twice two are equivolent or equal to 
four. 



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LESSON CLXXIY. 

Class 52, continued. 

Circvmfl.uant waters flow around. We must 
never be indiferent to the welfare of others. A 
coinsidence is a falling or happening together. 
Black is not every where the habilliment or dress 
of mourners. There was an incohearance or 
want of connection in his discourse. The ante- 
sedent is something going before. The circum- 
ambiant air is the air that surrounds us. Sugar 
is one ingreedient of cake. The deponant is the 
person who deposes or says. 

LESSON CLXXV. 

Class 62. — Wo?^ds \uith SC in the same syllable. 

The scithe of time is a figurative expression. 
The septre of Judah has departed. Sience has 
rapidly advanced during the present century. 
The word scissers means cutters; scisure and 
sission mean a cutting. Consious guilt needs no 
accuser. The seenery of America is more grand 
than that of Europe. A Turkish sword is called 
a sirnetar. When a flint is struck it sintillates or 
sparkles. The conciousness of guilt is oppressive. 
Your bounty transends or exceeds my desert. 

LESSON CLXXVL 

Class 62, continued. 

Let us desend into the mines, for the descnt is 
not difficult. Avoid every thing immoral or 
obcene. To recind a law is to repeal it. The 
rescission of the law was followed by the abscision 
of all sinecures or useless offices. The angels 
are represented as of transendant beauty. Conde- 
send to men of low estate. What condescentlon 
was exhibited by our divine Master. The idiot, 
being unconsious of any crime, was not punished. 



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LESSON CLXXVII. 
Class 62. — Words tenth SC in different syllables. 

The cresseni or new moon is a Turkish emblem. 
The water became visid or ropy, The serpent is 
said to fasshiate small animals. The vissera fill 
the body. To sussitate is to excite or rouse np. 
Oil and water are not missible without soap. 
Hermits lead an assetic or secluded life. A wart 
is an excressence of the skin. Ruminating ani- 
mals are all herbessent, feeding on grass. The 
elephant does not eat or drink through his pro- 
bossis or trunk. 

LESSON CLXXVIIL 
Class 62, continued. 

The putressence of wood and fish often pro- 
duces phosphoric light. Some gloomy minds 
think that evil has the upper hand or ascendancy 
in this world. Some hearts are not susseptible to 
generous emotions. His temper was irassible or 
easily angered. The vissidity of that gum almost 
equals that of glue. The tiger eviseraies an ani- 
mal by placing the fore feet on his breast, and 
tearing out the bowels with one stroke of the 
hinder feet. We can not resnssilate the dead. 
His acqidessence in the divine will is exemplary. 

LESSON CLXXIX. 
Class 62, continued. 
In adolessence, or the season of youth, there is 
great susseptibility to pleasure. Alkalie promotes 
the coalessence or union of oil and water. Her 
convalessence is rapid as her illness was sudden. 
Effervessence is caused by the escape of gas 
through the liquid. Effloressence is a flowery 
appearance on the surface of some exposed min- 
erals. He delights in the reminiscenses of his 
childhood. An irridescent mineral gives forth 
colors like the iris or rainbow. Coral is often 
arboressent^ growing like a tree. An ossilation of 
the pendulum is a vibration of it. 



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LESSON CLXXX. 
Class 63. — Words containing Tion, Sion or Cian. 
One third is a fracsionel part of a unit. The 
cord was snapped by too great tention or stretch- 
ing. The magitians pretended to perform mira- 
cles. It was Gpsional, or left to his choice, whether 
he should go or stay. A pention is an annual 
allowance. In ancient Rome the nobility were 
called pairisions. They made a iibasion to Bac- 
chus by pouring wine upon the ground. Warbur- 
ton wrote a book called the Divine Legaslon or 
Mition of Moses. There are many vertmns or 
poetical translations of the Psalms. 

LESSON CLXXXL 
Class 63, continued. 

The inflasion of a balloon is the filling of it 
with gas. Some animals catch scents by a dila- 
sion or spreading of the nostrils. An optisian 
studies the laws of vision or sight. Abraham 
made an oblatian or offering of his son Isaac. 
The migration of birds is still a mystery. The 
ascenlion took place at noon-day. The vibrasions 
of a short pendulum are quicker than those of a 
long one. The fever caused an entire prostra- 
sion of strength. The variasion of nouns by 
cases is called declention. 

LESSON CLXXXIL 
Class 63, continued. 

Death leads to the frnstrasion of many a plan. 
He excelled in the cllasion of passages from the 
poets. What are the dimentions of the hall ? The 
dissent'mn of the brothers led to the disperiion of 
the family. A logitian is one who reasons by rule. 
The infracsion or breaking of a law must never 
be overlooked. Rays of light are bent by refrac- 
sion. What we are entitled to after another's 
death we hold in revertion. No animal equals 
man in the pervertion of his powers. 



LESSON CLXXXHL 
Class 63 7 continued. 
An earthquake is generally followed by the 
ejection of matter from some volcano. Familial 
dialogues require frequent inflecsions of the voice. 
The secretion of fluids is the separating of them. 
Conditions are formed by the cohesion of parti- 
cles. They were filled to replesion. or completely 
filled, hivertion is the turning upside down. 
Christianity leads to the subvertion of idolatry. 
His ruin led to the secessia?i or withdrawal of his 
pretended friends. Never shake a patient's con- 
fidence in his physician, 

LESSON CLXXXXV. 
Class 63, continued. 
He died in the fruition or enjoyment of every 
thing but health. Barbarous nations, that can 
not write, hand down events by tradition from 
mouth to mouth. The remit ion of sin is the par- 
don of it. The arrival of the Europeans led to 
the expultion or driving away of the natives. 
Attraction is the opposite of repultion. The 
northern nations made incursions into the Roman 
empire. Any act of the human will is called a 
volition. 

LESSON CLXXXY. 

Class 63, continued. 
The easy ignition of coal depends upon the 
greater or less proportion of carbon it contains. 
The shore is worn away by the attrision of the 
waves. Some kinds of food afford more nutrician 
than others. Intercesion is the coming between, 
but retrocesion is the going back. Who does not 
wish for the manumition or freedom of the slave 1 
His conduct was open to onimadvertion or cen- 
sure. Paganini was a great musitian. The con- 
scriptian, or enrolling of soldiers, caused great 
distress in France. 



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LESSON CLXXXVI. 
Class 63, continued. 
Pditiiions are not remarkable for fairness. 
Rocks are lessened by ahrazion or rubbing, and 
by erozion or eating away. Some religions re- 
quire frequent abluswns or washings. The -dilu- 
swn of ^alcohol makes rum. Some things admit 
of no solusion or explanatioM. The small-pox is 
attended with an emptian or breaking out of the 
skin. That officer was dismissed for defalcasion 
in his onice, 4 'His blood be upon us -and our 
children" was an imprecasion. 

LESSON CLXXXVII. 

Class 63, continued. 
The Infusian of any herb is familiarly, but 
improperly, called tea. Civil war causes a dread- 
ful efusion of blood. That bad news led to the 
suffuzion of his cheeks with tears. They had 
some ookision or secret understanding. A geame- 
tritian should be a good arithmatkian also. Sin 
is an alteration or wandering from duty. Inspira- 
sion is the drawing in, and expirasion is the 
sending out of the breath. Respirasion means 
breathing in general, whether in or out. Matuwt- 
tian is the ripening of any thing, 

LESSON CLXXXVIIL 

Class 63, continued. 
Migrasion is the going from place to place. 
Emigratian is the going out of a country. 
I?mnigratwn is the going into a country. Trans- 
migration is the going from one body or state to 
another. The Jews used trituration or bruising, 
instead of grinding, to produce flour. Conversa- 
sion, in the scriptures, means conduct. The 
dillatasion of a balloon is the expantion of it. 
.The fermentasion of beer is vulgarly called work- 
ing. The attractian between separate bodies is 
called gravitasion. Amputatian is the cutting off 
a limb. Temperance led to a rennovasion or re- 
newal of his constitution. 



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LESSON CLXXXIX, 
Class 63, continued. 

Innovations or novelties are not always improve- 
ments. Gold produces a condensation or thicken- 
ing of the air, and heat causes a rarifaction or 
thinning of it. A substance turned into stone is 
called a petrifaction. The crossing of two lines 
is called their intersectian. A 'malledicii&n is a 
curse. His vallediction or parting word was, 
" My peace I give unto youv ? That contusion or 
blow on the head made him insane. The ilusions 
or deceptions of the senses are frequent. The 
belief in witchcraft was a strange delusion* 
LESSON CXC. 
Class 63, continued. 

Knowledge not derived from without one r s seTf is 
called intuision, and is said to be innate. Boiling 
or ebulitian is caused by the rising of heated air 
or gas through the liquid. The breaking or demo- 
lision of a mirror is an admonision to causion, but 
no premonition of death or disohdion. Ap&sitian 
is a grammatical term for nouns similarly situa- 
ted. His deposition or statement wss not contra- 
dicted. An exposition or explanation of the Bible 
involves great responsibility. Ability to change 
place is called locomosion. 

LESSON CXCL 
Class 63, continued. 

Peace is essential to the eddificasion or building 
up of nations and individuals. The nulification 
of a law is the rendering it of no force. Science 
has led to the elucidation or clearing up of many 
mysteries. I}ilopidosion is strictly the falling 
apart of stones. The returning to nothing is 
called anihillation. Vivificasion or making alive 
belongs to God ; but the revivification of suspen- 
ded life, is sometimes effected by man, and is 
also called resuscitation. Every abbreviasion, or 
shortening of a word, should be marked by a dot, 
thus : Geo. for George ; Hon. for Honorable. 



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LESSON CXCI1. 

Class 63. continued. 
Every man may do something for the alevialian 
or lightening of the burdens of life. Some persons 
believe in the retro gradasion or going backwards 
of our race, but few have any aprehention on that 
account He suffered incarseration or imprison- 
ment. The reitteration or repetition of the same 
idea is tiresome. Alteration is the beginning of 
several words of a sentence with the same letter. 
He was never guilty of ter giver sasian or tnrning 
his back. The cicatrizasion is the scarring over 
of a wound. Some persons always use circiimlo- 
cusion^ or a round-about way of speaking. 

LESSON CXCIII. 

Class 64. — Words containing ION as Yun. 

A clarrion is a sort of trumpet. The husband 
used to ride on the saddle, and his wife on a 
pilion behind him. Gold in uncoined masses is 
called bnllyon. The knobs or arms on which 
cannons rest are called trunions. The fiizion or 
melting of platina is very difficult. He under- 
stands optics or the laws of vizion. A batallion 
of troops contains several companies. Modilions 
are ornaments in architecture. The postillions 
neglected the horses. The best vermillion is made 
of cochineaL The king retired to his tent or 
pavillion. 

LESSON CXCIY. 
Class 64. — Words with ION as Un. 

There may be too much precizion about trifles. 
The elizian of a letter is the cutting of it off, as, 
'tis for it is. The cars were crushed by the 
coli^ion or striking together. On his accesion or 
arriving at the throne, he proposed the sttpression 
of duelling. He was beloved by his parishoners. 
The aggresion or attack was made by the other 
party. The speaking to his servant while telling 
me a story was a digresion. 




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LESSON CXCV. 
Class 65. — Words containing Tiqxjs, Cious 
Ceous, like Shus. 
He has a captious or quarrelsome temper. The 
signs are all fallatious or deceptive. Whales are 
classed with cetacious animals and not with fishes. 
Loqwacsous or talkative persons should keep a 
good stock of Ideas. He owes success to an ad- 
ventitious or accidental occurrence. The wind 
was auspitious or favorable. The turkey belongs 
to the gallinacious or poultry tribe. Argillacious 
earth is earth containing clay. Precotions boys 
do not always make remarkable men. 

LESSON CXCVL 
Class 65 r contimteaX 
His conduct was ftagieimts m extremely wicked. 
The poor do not always get nutritious or nourish- 
ing food. Ciliceous means made of hair. He is 
not a veratious or truth-telling man. Rapatious 
birds constitute the first order. The winged wand 
of Mercury was called the Caducious. Crusta- 
cioiis animals, like the lobster, have shells with 
joints; testations animals, like the snail, have a 
shell of one piece. That is of a crociotts or saffron 
color. He was ^facitious or witty companion. His 
story is spetimes, but I do not believe it to be true. 

LESSON CXCYIL. 

Class 65, continued^ 
Henry VIII. was atroceous or cruel, and his 
daughter Elizabeth was capritious or whimsical, 
and very tenatioits of her prerogative or royal 
right. The tiger is more feroccous than the lion. 
Some plants have filacious or thread-like appen- 
dages. That milk has a cretacious or chalky 
appearance. He was too pertinaceous or stiff in 
his opinions. Kindness is the most efficacious 
revenge for injuries received. That was an in- 
auspitions or unlucky omen. Offitions attentions 
are apt to be insincere. 



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LESSON CXCVIII. 
Class 66. — Woi^ds containing TI and CI, as SH. 
The ambassador showed his credentials and 
was accredited. The manners of the age are too 
artificial. Order is very esse?icial to success. The 
nuptials, or marriage ceremony, differ in every 
nation. Initials are the first letters of a word. 
The solstitial points are on the tropics, twenty- 
three degrees and a half north and south of the 
equinoxial line or equator. His knowledge was 
very superficial Parents are apt to be indulgent 
and partial. The governor affixed his ojfitial 
seal to the commission, 

LESSON CXCIX, 

Class 66, continued. 
It is easier to be patient under pain than under 
ridicule. The quosient in division is the answer 
or result. An efficient agent will be needed to do 
that difficult work. God is the only omnHient or 
all-knowing spirit. That scholar is quite a pro- 
fitient in arithmetic. Never let your impatience 
make you fretful. His property was msuffiiient to 
pay his debts. Some men are brave but defitient 
in prudence. Omnisience, omnipotence and omni- 
presence are attributes or qualities of God alone. 

LESSON CC. 
Class 67, — Words in which I has Che force o/Y. 
The vallianC are not always the good. Filyal 
affection is that of a child for its parents. Triveal 
offences are slight ones. A brazier is one who 
works in brass. A grasier is a feeder of cattle. 
An axywm is a self-evident truth. We should all 
endeavor to melyorate or better our condition. 
The yellow fever is a billions disease of great 
malignity. Plants nocCious or hurtful to man are 
wholesome food to some animals. He was very 
punctileous in his engagements. He was too 
super silious or haughty to be popular. 

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LESSON COL 
Olass 67, continued. 
The drunkard is often besiyal or brutal. A 
ponyard is a sort of dagger. The game of biliards 
captivates and then ruins many. The grand 
visyer is the sultan's prime minister. Oil has 
an emolient or softening effect upon leather. A 
fawning sycophant is often called a spanyel. 
Early vice often leads to an ignominyus end. 
He stood upon punctilyos or over-nice points of 
conduct. The cilliary hairs are those forming 
the eyelashes. The priest consulted his brevyary 
or book of duties. The populace of ancient Rome 
were called plebeyans. 

LESSON COIL 

Class 68. — Words in which GE and GI have only 

the force of J. 

He was confined in a dunjeon and denied the 
aid of a surjon. A stingy, miserly fellow is called 
a curmudjon. An egregeous dunce is a distin- 
guished blockhead. The burning of a church is 
a sacriUgioiis act. Lainchon is a slight repast 
between regular meals. A trunchon is a sort of 
staff. An escutcfion, or coat-of-arms, is a badge 
of nobility. Adversity is often advantageous. 
Litigeous persons love to contend at law. Reli- 
geon connects the two worlds. A gudjeon is a 
small fish. 

LESSON CCIIL 

Class 69. — Words in which TT, CI and SCI have 

the force of She. 

In the rashyo, or proportion, of two to one. To 
sasiate is to satisfy. The pope's messengers are 
called nuntios. The acasia is a beautiful shrub. 
Spice viciates the taste. Man is a sensient or 
thinking animal. Death is an insasheate archer. 
The time spent in preparatory exercises is called 
a noviciate. To propiciate is to make favorable. 



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LESSON CCIV. 
Class 70. — Words ivith S like SH or ZH. 
We c'an not be share of living one moment, 
human life is so trancieni. Eating too much 
shugar will produce nawsea. The shoemach tree 
bears a red berry. An ozier basket is made of 
twigs. The rosiate or rosy dawn was once per- 
sonified and called Aurora. Useury now means 
unlawful interest. The coeshura is a rhetorical 
pause in a line of poetry. The fabulous gods of 
Greece were said to drink nectar and eat ambro- 
zia. Peninshula means almost an island. He 
was a zealous enlhuziast. 

LESSON CCY. 

Class 74. — Words containing QU as if preceded 

by a 

An acqueduct is an artificial passage for water. 
An acqueline nose is shaped like an eagle's beak. 
Perseverance is always recquisite or necessary to 
ensure success. Ubicwity is the power of being 
every where at the same moment. The seasons 
are caused by the oblicquity of the ecliptic, it not 
being on the same plane or level as the equator. 
His banishment was followed by the secquestra- 
tion or seizure of his goods. Law and ecquity 
should be sisters, and not cousins. Tee licqvefies 
in the sun. The bankrupt liquidated or settled 
all his debts. 

LESSON CCYI. 

Class 75. — Words loith C soft before E and I. 

The Daguerreotype prosess is a very fassile 
method of obtaining likenesses. Never laserate 
or wound the feelings of another. His mind was 
imbesile or feeble. Mendisity or begging often 
leads to mendasiiy or falsehood. The opassity of 
the earth means its want of transparency. Illisit 
or unlawful pleasures leave a sting behind. By 
maserating a carcass, or soaking it in water, the 
flesh falls from the bones. 



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LESSON CCVIL 

Class 75. continued. 

Gazing at the sun has produced sesity or blind- 
ness. He was accused of duplissiiy or double- 
dealing. The lubrisity or slipperiness of the eel 
renders it difficult to be caught. Munisipal laws 
are those made by a city or town. No one ever 
doubted his verasity or truthfulness. He was not 
distinguished by any precossity or early maturity 
of talent. A bishop is called also a diosesan. 
Velosity added to weight, constitutes momentum. 
The pig is not so i?idossible, or unteachable, as 
some suppose. The rinoseros is also called the 
unicorn. 

LESSON CCVIII. 
Class 75, continued. 

His oration was very felisitous or happy, and 
was remarkable for its perspicasity or clearness. 
More words are unnesessary. Excentrisity is 
called oddity. The authentisity of the Gospel 
history is settled. Nations must cultivate a resi- 
prosity, and do as they would be done unto. 
Books printed in 12mo, or dnodesimo, have twelve 
leaves to a sheet of paper. Air has all the elastis- 
ity of caoutchouc or India-rubber, but it has not 
the same tenasity or adhesiveness. 



LESSON CCIX. 

Class 75, continued. — G soft before E and I. 

The ledger collects all the charges against one 
customer upon one page. A diget is a twelfth 
part of the diameter of trie sun or moon. Those 
who condemned Charles the First were called 
regisides, or king-killers. Redgi?nen, means regu- 
lation of diet. Such small print is hardly ledgi- 
ble. Every animal provides for its projeny or 
offspring. The potato is an indijenous or native 
plant. Beligerent nations are those at war. Ice- 
bergs refrijerate or cool the atmosphere. 



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LESSON CCX. 
Class 75, continued. 

Soap stone has an oleajinous or oily feeling. 
Fishes are divided into the cartilajinous or gristly, 
and the bony. Some juices are more mucilajinous 
or slimy than others. Handsome writing is too 
often shamefully illedgible. The aborid genes are 
the primitive inhabitants of a country. His 
discourse was tautolojical or full of repetitions. 
Ledgerdemain is the same as sleight-of-hand. 
Phillological studies relate to the structure and 
origin of language. His codgitaiio?is or thoughts 
seldom found vent in words. 

LESSON CCXI. 

Class 58. — Words with A in the last syllable, like 

short U. 

Birds are cerial animals. Ironnical language 
says one thing but means another. Reviews sel- 
dom give a good sinoptical or general account of 
a book. Hexaggonal means six-sided and octag- 
gonal eight-sided. A diaggonal line is drawn from 
corner to corner. Diluvea?i or dihiveal land was 
washed up by the flood. The Roman agrarean 
law divided the lands equally among the people. 
Levierthan is a name given to any animal of 
monstrous size. The centripetal force leads the 
earth to seek the sun, and the centriffugal force, 
to fly off from him. 

LESSON COXII. 
Class 58, continued. 

The house was sold with all the appertinances 
or things belonging to it. Mountains are protu- 
berrances. An itinnerant preacher is one who 
travels continually. He lived so long in France 
that he forgot his vernaccular or native tongue. 
A blister is a vesiccular swelling. Oxidental or 
western is the opposite of oryental or eastern. A 
cattegorical answer is a direct one. An equilat- 
teral triangle is equal sided. Metropollltan means 
belonging to the capital city. 



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LESSON CCXIII. 

Classes 1, 5 and 9. — Words in which E final 
lengthens the 'preceding vowel. 

An cerolite is a meteoric stone. His bad charac- 
ter invalidates or weakens his testimony. Science 
elusidates or clears np many dark matters. Physi- 
cians innoculate for the small-pox. Society exhil- 
erates most persons. The teacher must reittwate 
his lessons, or they will soon be oblitterated. The 
revolution abolished the law of primogeneture 
which gave all a man's property to his eldest 
child. An arreopajite was a judge in the high 
court of Athens. His dress was a carricature, 
and his discourse all rhodomontade or rant. 

LESSON CCXTV. 
Class 76. — Words in which CH is sounded like K. 

The conk shell was the trumpet of the Nereids. 
Many skemes have no basis. The lylack is a 
flowery shrub. The pascal lamb was slain at the 
Passover. Before God made the world, matter is 
supposed to have been in chaoss or confusion. I 
saw a skedule or list of his debts. His history is 
based on the arkives or public records. The 
schiiTous is a sort of tumor or swelling. An 
eppoch is a period of time. A cronic disease is 
one that continues long. The first five books of 
the Old Testament are called the Pentatuke. 
LESSON CCXV. 
Class 76. — CH as K, continued. 

A worshipper of Bacchus was a baccanal. 
Beets contain much saccarine or sugary matter. 
Calceddony was a precious stone of the ancients. 
The sacrament of the Lord's supper is called the 
Eucarist. Alchymy is to chymist?y, what astro- 
logy is to astronomy. Froissart wrote a valua- 
ble Book of Cronicles. Two events happening 
at once form a sincronism. Tears were kept in a 
little vessel called a lacrymal. Most insects pass 
from the worm into the crysalis state. England 
was once a heptarky, or had seven kings. 



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LESSON CCXVI. 
Class 76.— CH as K, continued. 
Technical words are those peculiar to the arts 
and sciences. He was placed in a new sepulcre. 
A chymera is a creature of the imagination. A 
hemistich is half a line of poetry. Mineral waters 
containing iron are called calibeate. The canielion 
is a reptile of the lizard genus. The first point 
in chyrography or penmanship, should be dis- 
tinctness. Concology treats of shells. Any instru- 
ment that measures time is a cronometer. An 
anacronism is the placing of an event at a wrong 
date. Sinecdoche is a figure of speech. 

LESSON CCXVIL 
Class 76.— CH as K, continued. 

A cattechnmen is a heathen beginning to learn 
the elements of Christianity. Icthyology is the 
science that treats of fishes. A hypocondriac is a 
person who imagines himself sick. A baccanalian 
song is a drinking song. Astronomy has settled 
the cronology or dates of many events. Metemp- 
sycosis is the transmigration or passage of souls 
from one body into another. A cromatic telescope 
does not discolor objects by refracting the rays of 
light. The machinations or contrivances of the 
wicked recoil upon themselves. 

LESSON CCXYIII. 
Class 77. — Words containing PH sounded lihe F. 

Sylfs were fabulous inhabitants of the air, as 
gnomes were of the earth. The hiphen connects 
words or parts of words. A sphereoid is not a 
perfect sphear. ThefenLv was a fabulous sort of 
eagle. The eldest son of the king of the French 
is called the daufin. The dolfin lives with 
fishes but is classed with animals. The plant 
samfire makes a good pickle. A maxim is some- 
times called an aforism. Serajim is the Hebrew 
plural of seraph. A cennotaph is a monument to 
the memory of one not buried near it. 



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LESSON CCXIX. 
Class 77, continued. 

A sycofa?it is an officious talebearer. The busi- 
ness of an apothecary is called farmacy. Decep- 
tive reasoning is called sofistry. A raetafor is a 
figure of speech. Symfvny is harmony of sounds. 
Porfyry is a mixed or compound mineral. A 
certain wasting away of the body is called aitro- 
phy. Zoqfites resemble both vegetables and ani- 
mals. Asf altos is a bituminous substance easily 
inflamed. A limfatic temperament is neither 
nervous nor sanguine. Anafora is a figure of 
rhetoric. Rock crystal is diafonous or transparent. 
LESSON CCXX. 
Class 77, continued. 

The apocraphy is usually placed between the 
Old Testament and the New. The accounts of 
the giants in Patagonia are apocriphal or doubt- 
ful. Blood-letting was once called flebotomy. 
When the earth is farthest from the sun it is said 
to be in apheleon ; when nearest, in periheleon. 
Freenology is a new science of mind. That story 
ended with a dreadful catastrofy. Any strange 
occurrence is a fenomenon. A flegmatic person 
is not easily excited. The efemmera is said to 
live only one day. 

LESSON CCXXL 
Class 77, continued. 

Epijfany is a festival of the church. A perif- 
rasis or circumlocution is a round-about way of 
saying anything, but antifrasis is the use of 
words in a wrong sense. Amfibbious animals can 
live in air or water. That fihsofer was distin- 
guished for his filanthropy or love of mankind. 
Filology is the science or Jilosophy of languages. 
The Egyptians laid their mummies in a sort of 
stone coffin called a sarcofagus. The Pharisees 
wore jilacteries, or strips of cloth, with texts of 
scripture on them. 



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LESSON CCXXIT. 
Class 77, continued. 

That fraseology is im grammatical. The maker 
of a dictionary is called a lexicografer. The 
nightingale is called Filomela. Amfitheatres 
were circular, the performance being in the centre. 
Fosforescence is light emitted by decaying sub- 
stances. The youth Narcissus was metamorfosed 
or changed into a flower. Hydrofobia means 
dread of water. Stereo grajlc drawing represents 
solids on a flat surface. Diaforetics produce 
perspiration. Hieroglifics are figures or forms 
used for words. Fysiology describes the action 
of the animal organs. 

LESSON CCXXIII. 
Class 49.— - Words containing double consonants. 

Jibberish is unintelligible language. Every 
man is pecable or liable to sin. Indians wear 
mocasons for shoes. Tafeta and tifany are thin 
kinds of silk. It is better to be dijident than to be 
bold. Some great men agrandize or exalt whole 
nations. Parralax is an astronomical term. Par- 
allel lines run in the same direction. The Lord 
Chanceler is the highest judge in England. How 
marvelous are thy works ! Moons are also called 
satelites. 

LESSON CCXXIY. 
Class 49, continued. 

How tranquily a Christian dies ! His mind 
vacilates like a pendulum. He did not attempt 
to paliate or excuse his offences. The pelicle or 
thin skin of the blister is broken. His villainy 
admits of no excuse. She is a very ingenious 
miliner. The vessel was lost on a coraline reef 
or ridge of rocks. To colocate is to place together. 
There are four sylables'm. the word aerial. Min- 
erals crystalize by wonderful processes. That 
tree is remarkable for its symetry. Canibals are 
seldom found where animal food is abundant. 



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LESSON CCXXV. 
Class 49, continued. 
Such fiipancy will not pass for wit. The fort 
had a garison of fifty men. A paricide is a mur- 
derer of his parent. A barister is a counsellor at 
law. It is necessary to irigate or water such dry 
land. A coridor is a sort of gallery. Scurillous 
language must never be used. The Boston mas- 
acre took place April 5. 1770. Sasa.fr as is the 
name of a medicinal tree. Clasical writers are 
those whose works are a standard or model. The 
jesamine or jasmine is a slender plant. Some- 
times the arteries osify or become bone. 

LESSON CCXXVI. 
Class 49, continued. 
Some old books require a glosary or dictionary 
of their antiquated words. A Moslem or Musul- 
man is a Mahometan. A siroco is a hot wind. 
To desicate or exsicate is to dry up as plants do. 
The difusion of useful knowledge is a duty. A 
Christian must never be an agressor. An elipsis 
or elipse is a sort of oval. The cedila softens the 
c under which it is placed. Prunelo is a sort of 
cloth. A dilema is a double difficulty. 

LESSON CCXXVII. 



Class 49, continued. 

Why take ye thought for raiment or apparrel? 
A corosive acid eats into other substances. The 
asessors determine the value of property to be 
taxed. The opposum carries its young in a pouch 
or pocket. The pahneto is a sort of palm tree. 
Maleable metals may be hammered out. Lame- 
lated minerals lie in leaves or thin layers. The 
caterpilar is the larva or worm of a butterfly. 
An alegory is a continued metaphor. An armi- 
lary sphere is a globe composed of hoops repre- 
senting the circles of the earth and heavens. 



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LESSON CCXXYIIL 
Class 49, continued. 
The niedulary substance is the marrow of 
bones. She is lifiealy descended. A miscelany 
is a medley. The casowary resembles the ostrich. 
Wealth is not necesary to happiness. A note of 
hand is a promisory note. We should accomo- 
date our friends. The glory of the Creator is 
inefable or unuterable. Capilary attraction is 
shown by the rising of water in slender tubes. 
No man is infalible or not liable to error. 

LESSON CCXXIX. 

Class 49, continued. 
Strive to be inteligent. Her notes are melijlu- 
ent, flowing like honey. The orbit of comets is 
eliptical or extremely oval. Apathy or indiffer- 
ence is not tranquility. The coloquial style is the 
style used in conversation. The appearance was 
ilusory or deceptive. An imaculaie book is one 
without a typographical error in it. His expenses 
were comensurate with his means, or equal to 
them. We may comiserate or pity when we can- 
not aid. His conduct was tyranical. A bienial 
festival happens once in two years; a centenial 
once in a century. 

LESSON CCXXX. 

Class 49, contmned. 

Perenial plants do not die anualy. The Mil- 
ennium is the reign of Christ on earth. Man can- 
not anihilate or destroy matter. An anuity is a 
certain anual allowance. To aproximate is to 
approach or come near to. His remarks were 
irellevant or inapplicable to the subject. His 
opinion corobborates or strengthens mine. The 
emperor was accesible to his subjects. That 
matter was accesory or aditional. He pleaded 
hunger and the necesity of the case. He was an 
asiduous or dilligent teacher. 



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LESSON CCXXXL 
Class 49, continued. 

The stomach assimilates the food, or makes it 
like the body. Hearsay evidence is never admis- 
ihle. Who is sheltered from the vicisitudes of 
life ? Flagelation or whipping is less common 
than formerly. To circumvalate is to fortify 
around. An alegorical personage is not a real 
one. He was troubled with an inflamation of the 
eyes. An interegnum is the period between two 
reigns. The colosewm of Rome was once an 
amphitheatre. A lazareto is a sort of hospital. 

LESSON CCXXXTI. 

Class 49, continued. 

Intermitent fevers rage only at intervals. Pet- 
ifogger is a term of reproach for a lawyer. His 
composition is not inteligible. His attack was 
unwarantable. He is an incorigible offender. An 
indisoluble bond cannot be broken. It is better to 
be 'pusilanimous or cowardly than quarrelsome. 
A paraleliogram is familiarly called a long-square. 
Af ability of manners rarely fails to please. That 
chapter was supplimentary, or additional. 

LESSON CCXXXIIL 
Class 49, continued. 

A subteranean cavern is one under ground. 
The decrees of God are irreversable by man. His 
loss was irretreivable, or not to be repaired. Many 
plans, theoretical}/ fair, are practicaly bad. We 
must not engage in {legitimate or unlawful pur- 
suits. Some diseases are thought to be {remedia- 
ble or incurable. An inter ogatory is a question. 
He died of osification of the heart. An {revocable 
sentence cannot be changed. The argument for 
the existence of a God is irefragable, or not to be 
refuted. 



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LESSON CCXXXIY. 
Class 79. — Words in which G has the sound o/NG. 

An anggle is the opening between two lines 
that meet. Angleing is often a cruel diversion. 
The sangguine are too ardent. A lingguist is 
one skilled in langguages. An inggot of gold 
is any un wrought mass of it. A fishmunger is a 
seller of fish. To trungcate is to cut off. A red- I 
anggle is a long-square. Beef is the French 
word boeuf Anglecized. Delingquency is a fail- 
ure in the performance of obligations. To elong- 
gate is to lengthen out. 

LESSON CCXXXV. 

Class 80. — Words containing El variously 

sounded. 

Freedom of thought was once a hainous offence. 
Those out of office always invay against, or rail 
at, those who are in. A heffer is a young cow, a 
steer is a young bullock. Mullin is a common 
medicinal plant. Rogues generally pay the for jit 
of their crimes. The sheaves or bundles of grain 
made obeysance to Joseph's sheaf. The island of 
Madeira is a part of Africa. It is our duty to 
befrend distressed forreners. A counterfitter is a 
maker of false money. Few animals but man 
ever die of a surjit, or excessive eating. 

LESSON CCXXXVI. 
Class 81. — Words containing irregular sounds. 

He hung his wescoat agenst the icenscot or wall. 
The villin cheated me in that bar gin. The 
chaplin read the funeral service. Mountins were 
raised by pressure from below. The plantin 
grows in the West Indies. The queen went to 
parliment in the state carridge. The ceremony 
of marridge is variously performed. A rninniture 
is a likeness of small size. A hot climate pro- 
duces langgwor of body. He had great swavity 
or gentleness of manners. Asswetude means use 
or custom, and deswetude means disuse. The 
waters were asswaged or abated. 

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LESSON CCXXXVII. 
Class 81, continued. 

A hanch of mutton is the leg of a sheep. 
A landress is a washerwoman. Jandiceis a com- 
plaint of the liver. The dantless or fearless knight 
threw down his gantlet, or glove, when he gave 
a challenge. Swasion or perswasion is more 
effectual than force. Pickled cahage is called sour- 
krout. The dammage was great. He was the 
greatest personidge in the vilage. The joints are 
protected by cartilidge or gristle. Robbing a church 
is sacrelidge. The right of snfrage or voting 
is a great pr^iviledge. I saw by his vizage that 
he had taken umbridge or offence at what I said. 
LESSON CCXXXVIIL 

Class 82. — Words in which B or G is silent. 

Death is a det we must all pay in the loom. 
The ancient Peruvians made coams of long 
thorns. The thum has one joint less than the 
fingers. Under Paris are caiacoams or sepulchres. 
A reddout is a slight fortification. We must suc- 
coine or yield to fate. That knat is benummed 
with cold. He alternately knawed the bone and 
nashed his teeth. The shade on a dial is cast by 
the knomon. The nosticks were early heretics in 
the Christian church. The property of a bank- 
rupt is managed by an asinee. Nomes were 
imaginary beings said to live under ground. 
LESSON CCXXXIX. 
Class 82. — Words in which G is silent. 

The grief of a parent over a wicked child, is 
indeed poinant. He could assine no cause for 
that ill-usage. When we consine our dearest 
friends to the grave, we must not arrain the 
wisdom and goodness of Providence. Mischief 
malignely or maliciously done, should meet with 
condine or merited punishment. We must not 
impune or oppune another's motives. That was 
a bloody campain. 



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LESSON CCXL. 
Class 82.— Words in which H is silent 

An our glass measures time by the running of 
sand. A keeper of sheep is called a sheepherd. 
Never associate with disonest persons. Children 
in disgrace disonour their parents. An impostume 
is an abscess or ulcer. Disabille is an undress. 
Myrr is a medicinal gum. In poetry more 
depends upon rythm or measure than upon ryrne. 
A ghost has a gastly look, but a gostly man is 
only a priest. A gurkin is a pickled cucumber. 
Reubarb is used for food as well as medicine. A 
rapsody is a wild composition. 

LESSON CCXLL 
Class 82. — Words having H or K silent. 

Retoric is the art of oratory. He is troubled 
with hemorage, or bleeding, at the nose. The 
reumatism is a disease of the muscles. He stood 
agast or horror-struck at the sight. He was 
affected with catarr or cold in the head. The 
order of nighthood is no longer confined to mili- 
tary men. The neepan was dislocated. Knoll- 
edge should be accompanied with virtue. For- 
knolledge is necessary to a prophet. The nap- 
sack is a bag for a soldier's back. Navish tricks 
should never be encouraged. 

LESSON CCXLII. 

Class 82. — Words having L, N, or W silent. 

There is barm in Gilead. The sammon has 
deserted the rivers of Massachusetts. We ivoud 
help those poor Jokes if we coud. We shoud not 
condem a man unheard. We must not content 
any for whom Christ died. The falling leaves 
of autum excite sollem thoughts of death. We 
must not do rong that good may come of it. 
Remorse makes some men retched. We must 
icressle against tcmtation. There are no rizbands 
to his shirt. His father was a shipright. Hole- 
some bread is better than rich cake. 



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LESSON CCXLIIL 
Class 82. — Words in which P is silent. 

No man is exemt from the common lot. An 
impromtu is an off-hand remark. The book of 
Salms is called the Salter. The saltery was a musi- 
cal instrument. A seudo prophet is a false one. 
Resist the temter and he will flee. The orders 
were peremtory or positive. JSumtuary laws 
regulate the manner and expenses of living. The 
festival was sumtuous or costly. Consumtion is 
often the penalty of fashion. Familiarity often 
breeds contemt. Never pay money without taking 
a receit. Be promt in performing duties. 
LESSON CCXLIV. 
Class 82. — Words having U or UE silent. 

When we garanty a contract we give a garantee. 
The gherdon or prize of warriors is often stained 
with blood. A rongish disposition may easily 
become criminal. He consulted his coleague or 
associate. The governor prorovged or adjourned 
the legislature. The Niger disemhoges or empties 
into the Gulf of Guinea. A mosk is a Mahom- 
medan place of worship, and a sinagogne is a 
Jewish place. The Eclogs of Virgil are pastoral 
poems. The Decalog is the ten commandments. 
The prollog comes before the play and the eppilog 
after it. 

LESSON CCXLY. 

Class 83. — Words containing French sounds. 

Lickor has cankered many a conkeror. There 
is much ettikette at courts. He taught a parokett 
to speak several words. Coketry is an offensive 
kind of vanity. A harlekin is a merry-andrew. 
Oblike lines are leaning in regard to other lines. 
The earth is an opake or not transparent body. 
In the game of pickette only the higher cards are 
used. The cokette resembles the butterfly. A 
kadrille is a dance by four couples. The ex- 
checker is the state treasury. 



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LESSON CCXLVI. 
Class 83, continued. 
Human life is a maskerade in which few show 
their true faces. A palankeen is a travelling 
chair used in the East. He was dealing out soop 
to a groop of famishing children. The croop is a 
dangerous disease of the throat. A keep-sake is 
called a sooveneer. The word sirtoot means 
over-all. A cartooch is a box for cartridges. The 
contoor or outline is correctly drawn. His rnoos- 
tashes give him an uncooih appearance. A soldier 
dressed for battle or parade is armed and accoo- 
terd. The tambooreen is a sort of drum. 

LESSON CCXLVIL 
Class 83, continued. 
We travelled with a horse and shays. The 
seneshal arranged the guests. The aeronaut 
descended from his balloon by means of a sort of 
umbrella called a parashute. A sharade is a sort 
of riddle. They gained the cause by their tricks 
or shicanery. Galoshes are shoes worn over 
boots or other shoes. Pistasho nuts came from 
the East. A shampain is a flat open country. 
A good soldier is a mere masheen. The mar- 
shioness outlived the marquis her husband. 

LESSON CCXLVIXI. 
Class 83, continued. 
A prof eel is the outline of one's side-face. Ver- 
digrease is a green rust seen on copper. Her 
pelice was trimmed with fur. A valice is a sort 
of travelling wallet. Much depends on the caprece 
of a monarch. Fateague is not disease. Honest 
minds dislike all intreague or Jiness. A cazeek 
is an Indian chieftain. The torrent rushed down 
the raveen or deep hollow. The moskeeto is a 
troublesome insect. The infected vessel was 
detained in quaranteen or non-intercourse. Ultra- 
mar een is a very beautiful blue. 



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LESSON CCXLIX. 

Class 85. — Anomalous or Irregular Words. 

Thow he slay me, yet will I not complain. He 
has a furloiD or leave of absence. He is a thur- 
row disciplinarian. He who wishes to plant must 
first plou. Bunyan's Pilgrim fell into the slow or 
mire of despond. The drowt was destructive to 
the corn. He was a dowty or valiant chieftain. 
The meat of some birds is tuff. The skin that 
a snake casts off is called his stuff. " Enuffis a 
little more than one has." You ort not to kawf 
towards any one. The pig puts his feet into the 
troff. Forethorts must not come afterwards. It 
is unlawful to hoc or hamstring a beast. 
LESSON CCL. 
Class 85, continued. 

A lake in Scotland is called a lock. King Lear 
had three dorters. Young ladies should not laff 
aloud in the streets. The game of chequers is 
also called drafts. She was a pritty creature. 
The baskit is not filled. The briskit is a part of 
the breast of veal. Ingland means the Land of 
the Angles. The heighth is greater than the 
breadth. The kalidoscope is an optical instrument. 
Some memories, like sivs, let all that is valuable 
escape. It is no credit to excel in mischif. She 
has lost her hangkerchif. 

LESSON CCLI. 
Class 85, continued. 
Orgiz mean disorderly revels. A frend in need 
is a frend indeed. The grand seenyer is the 
Turkish sultan. They ett holibut. God is called 
the Antient of Days. The anjels are messengers 
of the Most High. A Scotch highlander is called 
a Gale. The Gallic is the original language of 
Britain. Britches have been superseded by 
trousers. The meezles is a dangerous disease. 
The procession formed a splendid padgeant. 



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LESSON CCLII. 

Class 85, continued. 

A serjant is not a commissioned officer. Ven- 
jance is mine only, saith the Lord. One sort of 
type is called burjoice. A literary theft is called 
a plajarism. I wish to sudgest one alteration. 
A ledger collects the scattered charges of the 
journal upon one page. He alledges or declares 
that she is guilty. Several colledges form a uni- 
versity. How many neglect their priviledges. 
All should bow to the magesty of the laws. A 
predjudlce is a judgment formed without examina- 
tion. To exadgeraie is to tell more than the truth. 
LESSON CCLIII. 
Class 85, continued. 

I shall go mawgre or notwithstanding his 
objections. Salt water has a nawshus taste. To 
gage a cask is to measure its contents or capacity. 
Gamboodge is a yellow vegetable juice. His 
spirits are naturally boy ant or cheerful. Cain 
imbrood or stained his hands in his brother's 
blood. Indians make canoos of birch bark. The 
persuit was hot, but not successful. A recroot is 
a new soldier. The baker in his cirkit sells many 
biskits and loaves. Do not interrupt one who is 
buisy. Busyness before pleasure ! How buisily 
some insects work ! 

LESSON CCLIV. 
Class 85. — Irregulars, continued. 

Lettis is eaten as a salad. Some pidgeons are 
taught to carry letters. The Puritan fathers 
had no cushins in their pews. Rallery and ridi- 
cule seldom promote friendship. The Scotch 
plad is a national dress. A grawt a day amounts 
to six pounds in a year. Coco is the fruit of a 
kind of palm tree. Unylons are wholesome and 
medicinal. A porpuss belongs to the order mam- 
malia. The tortise^s shell is formed by the peculiar 
growth of his bones. Aloze is a bitter plant. 



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LESSON CCLY. 
Class 85.- — Irregular '$, continued. 

A yoman's bow was made of the yew tree. 
The vessel was in great jeppardy or peril. The 
leppard cannot change his spots. The camel- 
leopard is now called the giraffe. Many persons 
use the word peeple instead of persons. Feff, 
enfeff, and feffee are law terms. No one can 
knnjer up spirits. England once claimed suv- 
reignty over France. The berrial of the dead 
should be a solemn service. Gum gwackum is 
said to be medicinal. A guinny is one shilling 
more than a pound. A banijo is a sort of bath. 
LESSON CCLVI. 
Class 85.— Irregulars^ continued. 

The Turkish wimin are shut up in the seralio. 
Who has not felt the moral granjeur of Wash- 
ington? Some persons call a lewtenant a leften- 
ant. We reached the beutiful perlieus or borders 
of the city. There is something bewcheus in our 
lake scenery. The mizletoe was held sacred by 
the ancient Britons. We should be curcheus to all 
men. The art of reasoning is called rasheosina- 
tion. We measured the stiperfishes or surface of 
the field. He looks with spetial favor upon the 
dutiful. Much is left to our discresion. 
LESSON CCLYII. 
Class 85. — Irregulars, continued. 

Transision is the passing from one state to 
another. We should always act in a rashonal 
manner. The better the man, the better the con- 
sience. The mussles of the body move the bones. 
W~e should acquiess in the divine appointments. 
Drops of quicksilver coaless or run together. 
Beer ejfervesses or ferments. Salt will deliquesse 
or become liquid in damp places. The surface 
of the sea phosjyhoresses in hot climates. The 
balloon is flacksid when not inflated. Sickcity 
means dryness. 



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LESSON CCLYIII. 
Class 85. — Irregulars , continued. 

Yery little suffizes to supply our real wants. 
Woosted hose is made of woollen yarn. Red 
ocre is a sort of earth. The icknewmon is a 
quadruped. Mickelmas is a festival in honor of 
the angel Michael. There is a sism or division in 
that church. The feasant has beautiful plumage. 
A nefew is a brother's or sister's child. The 
saphire is a precious gem. The young must guard 
against the suttlety or refined cunning of infidels. 
A vittler is one who provides vittles for travellers. 
Addsititious means supplementary. 
LESSON CCLIX. 
Class 85.— Irregulars, continued. 

Ajavline is a short spear. An omlette is a sort 
of fried cake made of eggs. The chief ruler of 
Holland was once called the Statholder. Flegm 
arises from the diseased humors. The diafragm 
is a partition between the chest and abdomen. 
Fawcons were once trained to catch small birds. 
A dipthong is the union of two vowels, and a 
tripthong of three, in one syllable. The astmah 
is the same as the pthisic. An istmus is all that 
prevents a peninsula from being an island. Crist- 
mass is the festival of our Saviour's birth. 
LESSON CCLX. 
Class 85. — Irregulars , continued. 

The chesnut is enclosed in a sort of chest. A 
morgage is a pledge of land for money borrowed. 
Isleands are mountains in the sea. A vicount is 
next in rank to an earl. Assymptotes are certain 
right lines in geometry. The science that treats 
of air is called pnumatics. Nemonics is the art 
of improving the memory. The romb is some- 
times called the diamond form. It is to be hoped 
that wariors will soon lay aside the sord. A 
mild anser turns away anger. The tungue is an 
unruly member. A legue is three miles. 



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LESSON CCLXL 
Class So.— Irregulars, continued. 

The hoswain calls the attention of the crew to 
orders. A cubboard is a sort of closet. Wensday 
was the god Woden's day in ancient Britain. 
The ferhead is the front, and the occiput the back 
of the head. Good housewifry was one qualifica- 
tion of Solomon's virtuous woman. Elemosinary 
or charitable institutions owe their origin to 
Christianity. A sennight is a week, and a fort- 
night is twice as long. A farmacopoeia or dis- 
pensatory is a book describing medicines. Asa- 
fettida is a medicine to quiet the nerves. The 
elision of i in 'tis, is called an apheresis. 
LESSON CCLXIL 
Class 85.— Irregulars, continued. 

Shagreen is a French word meaning sorrow. 
Depo is French for a place of deposit. In aver- 
dupois weight, sixteen ounces make a pound. 
A maneiivre is a stratagem, An aidecainp is an 
officer's assistant. Nonpareil is a kind of type. 
An amainre is properly a lover. Some females 
color their cheeks with rooge. The exhibition 
came off with great eclah. We have no canalle 
or populace. Most persons move in one rooteen of 
duties. She gave me a booquet or bunch of flowers. 
LESSON CCLXIII. 
Class 85. — Irregidars, continued. 

Sooshong is also called black tea. The par- 
tare is the flower garden. The shamois goat is a 
fearless climber. An avalanch is a mountain- 
slide. We saw a giraffe at the mennagerie. A 
Icioerass is a sort of breastplate. There is a 
vinyette on the title page. The stars have been 
called night's flambds or torches. A rondo is a 
tune that continues on by repetition. A cotillion 
is the same as a quadrille. Belleiters means polite 
literature. A baggatelle is a trifle. Connisseur 
means a knowing one. 



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LESSON CCLXIY. 
Class 86. — Words misused, there being two or 
more words pronounced alike , but spelled differently. 

He drank too much ail and then wondered 
what aled him. He cut his foot with an adds. 
We recognized his voice e'er we saw him. We 
will follow wherere our duty leads. The shoe- 
maker sews with an all and an end. She gave 
arm^s to a heggar. We walked up the broad isle 
of the church. Many an alter has been stained 
with human blood. Raising a vessel's anker is 
called weighing it. Noah was saved in the arc. 
The assent is very steep and sandy. It was 
bored through with an augur. 

LESSON CCLXV. 
Class 86, continued. 

If he gives you ought you must return it. His 
conduct was stark nought and inexcusable. He 
bad them never to forsake his commandments. 
Some dry goods are packed in bails. Ask a fair 
price and never bait a cent. A successful poet 
is said to wear the baize or garlands. A snow 
bawl increases by rolling. He is young but his 
head is very balled. The bare is a clumsy beast. 
One part of music is called the base. The bay 
of Tunis owes allegiance to the Turkish sultan. 
The busy be extracts good from evil. 
LESSON CCLXVI. 
Class 86, continued. 

That is a mountain beach tree. Much sugar is 
now made from beats. It is fashionable for ladies 
to shoot with beaux and arrows. Has he bin 
sick again ? The corpse was borne on a small 
beer. A fine lady is sometimes called a bell. 
All nations have not bended their dead as we do. 
A sleeping place on board a vessel is called a birth. 
A turn or twist in a rope is called a bite. The 
clear atmosphere is of a blew color. He boared it 
with a gimlet. The corpse was born to the grave. 



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LESSON CCLXYII. 

Class 86, continued. 

Death is a borne or bound that all must pass. 
Rabbits borough in the ground. The bow bent to 
the ground with fruit. Do not brake a promise. 
He placed the breach of the gun against his 
shoulder. Give us each day our daily bred. 
The story was bruted or reported about. That 
ridiculous man was the but of the company. 
Never by a thing merely because it is cheap. 
Strong men do not need a cain. The call is a thin 
membrane, like a skin, covering the intestines. 
They cork the seams of a vessel with oakum. 
LESSON CCLXVIII. 
Class 86, continued. 

A calender month is a month as measured in 
the almanac. A law of the established church is 
called a cannon. The British barbarously burned 
the capital at Washington. The hero wore a 
cask of steel upon his head. France seeded or 
granted Louisiana to the United States. The 
sealing at the top of the room was injured. It is 
wrong to cell a damaged article for a good one. 
The lower room of a house is called the seller. 
The priest scattered incense with a censor. Musk 
has a very powerful cent. 

LESSON CCLXIX. 
Class 86, continued. 

A certain class of prophets are called sears. 
Some wounds are sered with a hot iron. The 
session of Florida was made by Spain. Some 
men chap wood with wonderful despatch. An 
anthem was sung by the whole quire. No man 
should inflame the collar or anger of another. 
Certain cords in that tune are very sweet. The 
Sink-ports were five associated seaports in Eng- 
land. Mount Cion was in Jerusalem. The 
capitol city occupies a beautiful sight. That 
claws of the sentence may be omitted. 



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LESSON CCLXX. 

Class 86, continued. 
It is difficult to clime the hill of science. The 
natives of some countries wear no close. The 
current swept the vessel out of her corse. The 
ship has her full compliment of men. That core 
of troops excels in discipline. Some men always 
endeavor to cousin or cheat their neighbors. We 
anchored in a small creak. A sort of worsted is 
called cruel. The swan seemed proud of her 
signets. The mother of some animals is called the 
damn. The Deigns once left Denmark and con- 
quered England. That forest is full of dear. 

LESSON CCLXXI. 

Class 86, continued. 
The due seen on plants is congealed to form 
frost. The ancients could die many rich colors. 
A man must be a chemist to be a good dier. 
Unbaked bread is called doe. That old horse is 
of a done color. If thou dust evil thou knowest 
the penalty. In Troy weight, eight drams make 
one ounce. The pitcher or your was broken. 
They built a fain or temple to the god. His 
attempt to storm the city was a faint to deceive 
the enemy. The fair of savages is often very 
coarse. The fawns were rural deities. 
LESSON CCLXXII. 

Class 86, continued. 
He disobeyed his farther and was lost. The 
juggler performed a famous feet with his hands. 
The felloiv of a wheel is its rim. I gave him a 
Philip on his nose. The wicked cannot flea 
from remorse. The smoke passes off into the 
flexo of the chimney. Ground wheat is called 
flower. Fore times ten are forty. Let us go 
fourth into the fields. His fort or excellence is 
good nature. Some fouls are not good for food. 
A French frank is 18| cents. I do not under- 
stand that frays. 

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LESSON CCLXXIII. 

Class 86, continued. 

The freeze is an ornament in architecture. 
The frier bade them trust in Providence. They 
held a fate or festival in honor of the president. 
His lameness gives him an awkward gate. 
France was once called Gall or Gallia. The 
buttons were doubly guilt. Avoid the glaire of 
the lights. The skirt was made fuller by insert- 
ing a gore. A great should be kept free from 
ashes. Can you lend me a nutmeg-greater? 
Grease was once a part of Turkey. The grieves 
defended his legs, and the cuisses his thighs. 
LESSON CCLXXIV. 
Class 86, continued. 

He was startled by a loud groivn. Any one 
might have guest that. He was a hail old man, 
for he was temperate. In his affliction he 
plucked the hare from his head. They tried to 
hall him away to prison. His hart was hardened 
against pity. Dried grass is called hey. The art 
of man cannot heel every disease. It is our duty 
to here a man before we condemn him. I herd 
much that I did not understand. The heios of 
life are very changeable. High thee, or hasten 
to thy quiet home. 

LESSON CCLXXV. 
Class 86, continued. 

The price of sin is hire than we can pay. The 
congregation then sang a him. It is foolish to 
horde up more wealth than one can use. The 
hole troop was slain, and buried in one whole. 
The war hoop is a dreadful sound. She was 
afflicted with a horse cold, and could not sing. 
How much depends upon a single our! They 
stopped at a wretched in. He was indited for 
murder. A wharf on a river is called a key. 
Limestone and bricks are burned in a kill. That 
knag is too small for his rider. 



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LESSON CCLXXYI. 
Class 86, continued: 

The knave of a wheel is called the hub also. 
Dough should be well needed before it is baked. 
He new the consequences of such conduct. A 
night-errant wandered about in pursuit of ad- 
ventures. A machine has been invented to nit 
stockings, Alexander untied the Gordian not by 
cutting it. We do not no what we shall be here- 
after. Who nose what an hour may bring forth? 
He lax many of the necessaries of life. They 
lade the body in the grave. It is a long lain that 
has no turning. 

LESSON CCLXXVII. 
Class 86, continued. 

Galena is a compound of led and sulphur. 
The lea side of an island is not that on which the 
wind blows. I had as leaf go as stay. Some eat 
raw leaks and onions. They went without lieve. 
A leaver increases a man's power. Familiarity 
too often lessons respect. A new levee of troops 
is ordered by government. The liar was an 
ancient musical instrument. The traitor was 
barbarously torn limn from limn. They shall 
say, " Loiv here ! and hio there ! " 
LESSON CCLXXVIII. 
Class 86, continued. 

The cattle load and the horses neighed. I 
asked for the lone of a small sum. A lake in 
Scotland is called a lock. The lower or learning 
of the ancients was familiar to him. He hath 
maid us, and not we ourselves. The coat of male 
was sometimes very heavy. The mane chance 
of the wise man is not money. The crop of 
maze was more abundant than that of wheat. 
The lord of the manner oppressed his tenants. 
The ma)itle-\)iece is of marble. Pertness is no 
marque of good breeding. A marshal air becomes 
a general. 



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LESSON CCLXXIX. 
Class 86, continued. 
We prefer water to meed. He scorned to do a 
mien action. Eve was called the help-meat of 
Adam. That hymn is in short meter ox measure. 
A man should not mule like a child. The dog 
barks and the cat muse. Mite or power is too 
often mistaken for right. A miner cannot vote. 
The glory of man will soon resemble the moan 
grass. Who does not see the moat in his neigh- 
bor's eye? How often men sell their souls for 
naught ! The horse nays, the ass brays. Nun 
is so blind as one who will not see. 

LESSON CCLXXX. 
Class 86, continued. 
Oar of iron abounds in Sweden. It was per- 
fumed with otter of roses. It takes more than 
won swallow to make a summer. Who painted 
Death on the pail horse? The hail broke every 
pain of glass in the house. Always pair the 
apple before you cook it. The king's house is 
called a pallas. We found the poor man stretched 
upon his palette. His nearest friends bore the 
paid and the bier. You must make a paws at a 
period. What a peace of work is man ! She 
bore some peak, or ill-will, against us. 

LESSON CCLXXXI. 

Class 86, continued. 
The bells rang a merry peel at the wedding. 
The arches of the bridge rested on wooden peers. 
Salt-peter is found in the earth. The place is a flat 
fish resembling the flounder. It is plane that vice 
brings its own punishment. The plates of that 
ruffle are very fine. He is a judge of the court 
of common please. Plumb pudding is said to be 
an English dish. The pole tax is a tax on heads. 
We want more practise and less theory. We 
should prey often to the Giver of every good gift. 



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LESSON CCLXXXIL 
Class 86, continued. 
The date of the letter must be prier to that of 
the answer. He was contented to sell at a small 
prophet. That fortune-teller was a worthless 
queen. The quincy is a dangerous disease of the 
throat. The rain of righteousness is not yet 
established over the nations. A sunbeam is 
composed of countless raise of light. Rap up 
small things in large papers. " Wrapped into 
future times the bard began." It is a poor book 
that is red but once. The slender read bent 
before the storm and was saved. The vessel was 
left a hopeless reck. 

LESSON CCLXXXIII. 
Class 86, continued. 
The field was wreaking with human gore. 
The robber tried to rest my purse from me. The 
rhyme on the cold ground resembled snow. The 
rice and fall of nations resembles those of indi- 
viduals. The rigor repaired the ropes that had 
been injured. It is not write for a good penman 
to right his name illegibly. Men wring the bells 
on merry occasions. The railrodes make neigh- 
bors of strangers. On each side of the road was 
a roe of elms. 

LESSON CCLXXXIY. 
Class 86, continued. 
It is rood to spit upon any floor. It is of little 
use to learn books by wrote. That rout leads 
from Boston to New York. Some persons think 
ruff manners a proof of genius. He rung from 
her a confession of her love. JSye-necked persons 
may often be cured. Take in the sales before the 
storm begins. There is too much satyr in his 
poems. In some countries, ladies scate as men 
do. With one oar you may skull but not row a 
boat. 



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LESSON CCLXXXV. 
Class 86, continued. 

The seen was more beautiful after the shower. 
Whence does the see get its supply of salt 1 The 
painted carpet shows no seems. He seas her 
faults, hut she does not. When two. have the 
same name, the elder is called seignior, and the 
younger junior. She cannot soia well with too 
large a needle. The collar was made of shear or 
thin muslin. A geometrical sign contains thirty 
degrees. What we call a slay, the Laplanders 
would call a sledge. Slight of hand is the same 
as legerdemain. 

LESSON CCLXXXYL 
Class 86, continued. 

Her hair was as black as the slow. The lark 
is said to sore higher than other birds. What 
would you give for sum of his patience 7 The 
son is the source of light to this system. No 
humane person will stair at the deformed. A 
slice of beef is called a stake, one of veal a 
cutlet. The fixed stars are not stationery, though 
our eyes cannot detect their motion. Same chil- 
dren think it is not a crime to- steel from their 
parents. Try to acquire an easy stile of writing. 
Do not put the soul of your shoe on the stove. 

LESSON CCLXXXVIL 
Class 86, continued. 
Straight or narrow is the gate that leadeth unto 
life. The most suttle are not apt to be the most 
honest. It is the duty of the strong to sucker or 
assist the weak. The president and his sweet, or 
attendants, occupy a sweet or succession of rooms 
at the hotel. The crescent or new moon is the 
sacred cymbal of the Turks. Every man who is 
protected must pay a tacks, A short tail is the 
sooner told. The mob were ready to tare him to 
pieces. The air often teams with insects, or is 
full of them. 



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LESSON CCLXXXVIII. 
Class 86, continued. 

Some ships have three tears of guns. His 
verses are generally less tierce than strong. " I 
pray the" has been contracted into prithee. 
Their is no place like home. Be faithful threw 
good report and evil report. The parting with 
friends costs many a throw of agony. The city 
of Tire was taken by Alexander. There is no 
thrown so high that it cannot be throne down. 
Fine honey is made from wild timie. The tied 
ebbs or sinks, and flows or rises twioe in about 
twenty-four hours. 

LESSON CCLXXXIX. 
Class 86, continued. 

Such a tinny little fish is not worth the cooking. 
Some are two liberal with the money of others. 
Most canal-boats are toed by horses: They toll 
or entice fish t© their destruction. Some oriental 
ladies always wear vales. Vanes carry blood 
to the heart, and arteries away from it. The 
vial is a stringed instrument. The blacksmith 
uses a vice or screw. Many, if ivade in the 
balance of justice, would be found wanting. The 
stripes of the rod raised great wails on his skin. 
LESSON ccxa 
Class 86, continued. 

The wheels or pimples contained a watery 
humor. After the moon is full she begins to wain 
or decrease. The ivasie should never be com- 
pressed. Always give full wait and measure. 
He sells china, glass and crockery wear. When 
persons cannot agree they had better wave the 
subject. If men would way words they would 
grow scarce. A weakly newspaper is published 
once a weak. " I 'd like" means " I wood like," or 
" I had like." The question was taken by yds 
and nays. The you tree made the best bows for 
archers. 



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LESSON CCXCL 
Class 88, continued, 
The heir is solid though invisible. We maybe 
the air of titles, but not of virtues. They lost 
their awl when their mother died. The troops 
were under alms all night. I'lenoi live on that 
desolate aisle, Persecution never altars belief. 
The merchant bought an anchor of gin. A part 
of a circle is called an ark. He gave his ascent 
as soon as he was convinced. The auger or 
priest pretended to foretel events. We aught not 
to injure those who injure us. Naught moves 
men like interest, 

LESSON CCXCIL 

Class 86, continued. 
He became bale or surety for the appearance of 
the accused. Men are caught with bate as fishes 
are. Bays is a coarse woollen cloth. Those who 
ball most loudly are not always the most hurt. 
The country is bear of trees. Men seldom prosper 
long by bass means. The bey of Naples forms a 
beautiful crescent. To bee or not to bee, that is 
the question. They were cast upon a sandy 
beech. A patient teacher will seldom beet his 
pupils. A fop or gallant is also called a boio. 

LESSON CCXCIIL 
Class 86, continued. 
Farmers store their grain in a been. The dead 
are sometimes carried on a beer. The feminine 
of a beau is a bell. The whoxile-biuy is com- 
monly called the lmckle-bu?y. His berth was 
foretold by angels. The bight of most snakes is 
harmless. The wind blue towards the land. 
Dr. Franklin was borne in Boston. Ineon orated 
towns without inhabitants are called rotten bur- 
rows. Sycophants make too many boughs. A 
tiger lay concealed in the break. 



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LESSON CCXCIV. 

Class 86, continued. 
The besiegers entered through a breech m tire 
walls. He was bread a lawyer. Some bruits 
seem to think, hut none appear to worship. 
None are safe butt the innocent. Good-buy should 
not fee spelled good-by. Cane was punished for 
the murder of Abel. The conjurer may mwl up 
spirits, but the spirits may not come. Oalk is 
the bark of a sort of oak tree. Cloth is calendared 
m a hot press. The canons of a -ship are gen- 
erally called guns. Washington is the capital of 
the United States. 

LESSON CCXCY, 

Class 86, continued 
Wine, now kept in casques^ was once kept in 
leather bottles or bags. Each plant has its own 
cede. Be careful to ceil your letters neatly. In 
ceiling letters do not cover the writing. The 
prisoners were confined in damp sells. The 
cellar is expected to send the goods home. A 
regulator of manners in Rome was called a cen- 
ser. I scent him away rich, but he returned 
without a sent. Hot and dry weather seei*s the 
foliage. Some nations sere a corpse, or cover it 
with wax to prevent decay. 

LESSON CCXCVL 

Class 86, continued 
The cession of a court in England is called the 
assizes. It is impolite to make a noise with one's 
chops in eating. A choir of paper contains twenty- 
four sheets. There is no choler to his coat. We 
are bound to life by many chords or ties. A sion 
of one tree was engrafted on the stock of another. 
Citizens are sometimes familiarly called sits. 
When a witness is wanted, he is sited or sum- 
moned to appear. Reading fine print always 
injures the site. The impression of birds' clause 
has been found on rocks in Massachusetts. 

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LESSON CCXCVII. 
Class 86, continued. 
Man is not confined to any climb, as some plants 
are. Sackcloth is a sort of course cloth worn as 
a token of humility. Achilles fastened the coarse 
of Hector to his car. Complements are very sel- 
dom sincere. He ate the apple, corps, skin and 
all. Cozens are children of brothers or sisters. 
The creeking of a door made the criminal 1 start. 
It is crewel to insult the unfortunate. The paper 
was sealed with the king's cygnet* 

LESSON CCXCVIII. 

Class 86, continued. 

Things we do not want are deer at any price. 
An honest, man will pay what is justly dew. It 
is appointed tmto all men once to dye. The buck 
was slain as he was looking for the dough. 
Nothing is dun until it is well dun. A morning 
drachm is an evening curse. I would fane learn 
if I could. We fain much that we do not feel. 
A feint heart never wins a fare lady. The doe 
was killed and the fauns taken. The father we 
advance the less we seem to know. 

LESSON CCXCIX. 
Class 86, continued. 

Monkeys are four-handed, and have no feat. 
He was a merry felloe, hut not a good one. Fillip 
is a Christian name, and Phillips a surname. 
The flee is a lively little insect, classed with ver- 
min. The nocturnal birds and insects flue around 
us all night. The flours were made for man's 
delight as well as for his use. Henry the Forth 
was assassinated by Francis Ravafllac. The 
forte commanded the entrance of the harbor. It 
is better to be franc than to be insincere. He 
was constantly engaged in such phrase or brawls. 



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LESSON CCC. 

Class 86, continued. 
Dead flesh friezes more easily than the living. 
The Jupiter of the heathen 3 was himself subject to 
fete. Strait or narrow is the gait that leadeth 
unto life. The gaul bladder secretes or prepares 
the bile. Gilt generally makes men fearful. 
The glare of an egg feeds the yolk. The battle 
field was wet with goar. The grate should 
endeavor to be the good also. The grater the 
offence, the more noble the forgiveness. Do not 
soil your dress with greece. He greaves as 
though there were no hope. He was groan up 
when he went abroad. 

LESSON CCCL 
Class 86, continued. 
A host is a landlord, and a guessed is a visitor. 
Hale is frozen at a great height. The hair bur- 
rows not as the rabbit does. The haul was not 
large enough for the company. He shot the 
heart, and the hind fled. The heal of Achilles 
was his only vulnerable part. We allow no idle- 
ness hear. A keeper of goats is called a goat- 
heard. To hue timber is to cut it into shape. 
The hie and low find the same level at last. 

LESSON CCCIL 
Class 86, continued. 
Some kings higher soldiers at a few cents a day. 
The Calmucks are an uncivilized hoard. Trund- 
ling whoop is a healthful exercise. The hoarse 
is a noble animal. There is no pleasure inn sus- 
pense. The general indicts letters, and the aids- 
de-camp write them. A nag or knot in wood 
adds to its beauty. Never deal twice with a 
nave. Man kneads but little here below. Many 
spend their time in seeking something knew. 
The knight is just as long as the day at the 
equinoxes. 



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LESSON CCCIII. 
Glass 86, continued. 

The eggs of lice are called knits. Many men 
are knot so bad as they seem. A very lacks dis- 
cipline leads to confusion. It is not^fair to laid 
another with our own burdens. It has not lane 
long in that place. We have lead her often to 
that placev The fall of the lief admonishes us 
of our own frailty. Stop a leek in the roof while 
the weather is fair,. I had as leave go as stay. 
It is useless to learn lessens that must be forgotten. 
The queen's levy was fashionably attended. A 
Her is hardly believed when he tells the truth. 
He limbs or paints better than he writes. 
LESSON CCCIV. 
Class 86, continued. 

The la are in little danger of falling. Do not 
place too heavy a hived on a young animal. A 
loan person is one that lives by himself. That 
door is secured with a patent loch. Man was 
made but little lore than the angels. In Scripture 
a woman is sometimes called a YiBAid-made. The 
mail is generally stronger than the /email The 
main is an ornament to a horse. We were lost 
in a maize or labyrinth. His manor was more 
offensive than his matter. A mantel is worn over 
the shoulders. 

LESSON CCCV. 
Class 86, continued.. 

A fi.el&-ma?~tial is a high military officer. The 
mead of virtue is not always money. Her mean 
was benignant and genteel. As men meet, it will 
be measured to them in return. It is not mete to 
cast pearls before swine. The consumption of 
gas is indicated by a metre. The mewl is larger 
than the ass. A thoughtful person will love to 
mews. A might or mote may put out an eye 
that awes the world. Minors often live for 
months under ground. The lower animals mourn, 
but they never laugh nor weep. 



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LESSON CCCVL 

Class 86, continued. 

The besiegers filled the mote or ditch and 
ascended the wall So far from being good, it is 
stark nought. He asked assistance, but they gave 
him nun. A short ore is called a paddle. It was 
all ore before the doctor arrived. The otiar has 
valuable fur. He has one the prize, but another 
has lost it. A small pale with a handle is a 
piggin. Pane is not always an eviL She bought 
a pare of mittens. The pallet is the roof of the 
mouth. The pause of most animals are armed 
with nails or claws. 

LESSON CCCVIL 
Class 86, continued. 

The Gospel recommends love and piece. The 
pique of some mountains is always covered with 
snow. The peal of a lemon contains a peculiar 
acid. Piers or nobles are made by the king. 
The name Petre means a rock. Have a set 
plaice for every thing. Boards are smoothed with 
a plain. Bring me a plait and a tumbler. That 
platform is not plum or level. The Ma.y-poll has 
seldom been set up in New England. Practise is 
better than precept. The eagle prays by day, 
and the owl by night 

LESSON CCCVIII. 
Class 86, continued. 

He was the last of the profits. Quean Eliza- 
beth was a vain woman. John Adams died at 
Qu'msy. A good horse will mind the rain. 
Reign is vapor condensed by cold. The Romans 
raised the walls of Jerusalem to the ground. No 
man could raze the dead unless God were with 
him. Some one zvraps at the door. The jewel 
was rapt in cotton. The rising generation reed 
too much and think too little. " But little he'll 
wreck or care, if they'll let him sleep on." It is 
base to reek vengeance on a helpless foe. 

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LESSON CCCIX. 
Class 86, continued. 
The innocent may securely icrest on God. 
There may be good poetry without rime. The 
rigger of winter increases towards the poles. It 
may not be write to expect a wheel-right to rite 
correctly about wrights and ceremonies; but a 
skilful rite may be able to wright about the write 
method of making wheels. Filial ingratitude 
rings the heart of parents. John Gilpin road 
farther than he intended. The row-buck is a sort 
of deer. Four square rudes make an acre. 

LESSON CCCX. 
Class 86, continued. 
Holy men rote as they were moved by the Holy 
Spirit. The route of the enemy was complete. 
Queen Elizabeth is always painted with a rough 
about her neck. The bells were wrung to alarm 
the town. Some persons prefer %ory to wheat. 
He only sells at whole-sail. The fabled satire 
was half man and half goat. The skate or ray is 
a large flat fish. The scull is composed of many 
bones. The fishermen spread their scenes across 
the river. 

LESSON CCCXI. 



Class 86, continued. 
All men cannot sea with the same spectacles. 
Every man should try to be better than he seams. 
The sees must one day give up their dead. The 
Turkish Sultan is called the grand Senior. As a 
man setveth so shall he reap. The sheer town is 
the county town. A good shepherd will feed his 
sheep as well as sheer them. All si?tes are said 
to fail in dry weather. Cain did wrong to sleigh 
his brother. It is base to sleight a good man 
because he is poor. The tortoise in the fable was 
sloe and sure. 



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LESSON CCCXII. 

Class 86, continued. 
Every man knoweth bis own soar or trouble. 
The sole will survive the wreck of the body. 
What is the entire some that is due? A dutiful 
sun is the joy of his parents. It is incorrect to 
say a pair of stares for a whole starecase. John 
Rogers was burnt at the steak for his religious 
opinions. Quills and paper are called stationary. 
The best edge tools are made of steal. The style 
had several steps on both sides of the wall. A 
right line is only a strait one. 

LESSON CCCXIII. 

Class 86, continued. 
The succors should not be left around the tree. 
The symbol was an ancient musical instrument. 
Fasten the carpet down with tax, and not with 
brads. Monkeys differ from apes in the greater 
length of their tales. The horses or oxen, and 
not the vehicle, are the teem. Joy as well as 
sorrow starts the tiers. A terse contains about 
forty gallons. Give even your enemies there due. 
The heated traveller through aside his cloak. 
Those who live in a house of glass must not throe 
stones at those who pass. We should never tyre 
in doing good. Thyme and tide wait for no man. 

LESSON CCCXIY. 

Class 86, continued. 
We are tide to earth by too many bands. Few 
persons regard the difference between too and 
intoo. The ostrich has three tows, but most birds 
have four. The tole is less for useful vehicles 
than for those of pleasure only. The vails are 
more fruitful than the hills. The vain or 
weathercock points northward. It is vein to cry 
for spilled milk. The medicine was kept in a good 
viol. Vise too often tries to look like virtue. The 
stream is so deep we cannot ford it or weighed 
across. The fore wheals turn faster than the 
hinder ones. 



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LESSON CCCXV. 

Class 86, continued. 
It is better to amend a fault than to bewale it. 
Charles's wane or wagon is a cluster of stars in 
the Great Bear. Nobody has a right to waist 
while any body wants. Death seldom weights 
for an invitation. Constant dropping of water 
will ware away stone. He said to the winds and 
to the waives, Peace, be still ! A ^e^A-passenger 
is one taken up on the route. Choose yea this 
day whom yea will serve. Yew should allow to 
others the rights yew claim for yourself. 

LESSON CCCXYI. 

Class 87. — Vulgarisms : being words misused for 
others to which they bear some resemblance in 
spelling or 'pronunciation, or words only badly 
pronounced. 
Except this present as a mark of my esteem. 

That book has passed through many additions. 

The laws of our nature air not to be disregarded 

with impunity. The aunt is a small animal. 

When a man dies, his estate is apprized or valued. 

Never loiter when you are doing an arrant. The 

good man is best known by his life and axe. A 

bacon is a signal of danger. 

LESSON CCCXVII. 

Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 
Some prefer meat biled, and others briled. 
Sift the meal and remove the brand. The hermit 
was distinguished by his long bared. The bust- 
ing of boilers must be prevented by severe pen- 
alties. Some people prefer salary to lettuce for 
salad. We must not force our council upon 
others. The currier or messenger hastened on. 
Eminent danger requires prompt action. I expect 
it was he who did it. If he is caught, they will 
flee him alive. His house is not fur off. 




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LESSON CCCXVIII. 
Class 85. — Vulgarisms, continued. 

Those animals form a new genius or kind. A 
candid or ingenious temper seldom gives offence. 
It is jest an hour since it happened. " The latchet 
of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloseP I 
would not go least they should mistake my 
motives. A line of veal is equal to a sirline of 
beef. Lickerish is good for a cold. The sea- 
birds alighted on the mash. All the best scholars 
received meddles. The heaviest mettle is gold, 
the hardest to melt is platina. He rode four mild 
while I walked one. The rocks were covered 
with morse. 

LESSON CCCXIX. 
Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 

He is obtained from animals of the whale kind. 
"And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took 
the stone that he had used for his pillar, and set it 
up for a pilloiv, and poured oil upon the top of it." 
That is not the pint in dispute. The precedent 
should not set a bad president or example to the 
people. Wisdom is the principle thing. The 
principals of the Gospel are easily learned. 
Horsereddish has a pungent taste. I have not 
been there sense I met you there. The week of 
the candle is too long. 

LESSON CCCXX. 
Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 

The currant of rivers, like that of life, runs not 
back. I can never forget the liniments of his 
face. " Thus sayth the Lord, I am God, and there 
is no God beside me." They ait bread and drank 
water. The Solter is the book of Psalms. The 
general and his suit reviewed the troops. More 
fell by disease than by the sward. The kernul 
ordered his regiment to advance. Do you prefer 
the sunflower to the merigoold? Who can doubt 
the benificence of the Creator? 



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LESSON CCCXXI. 

Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 

The frost has touched the foilage of the trees. 
Some think the zero is not a Jigger. Whose 
arethmatic is the best? Bachelders are only- 
unmarried men. That was a tremenduous battle. 
Many polite persons are very desateful. He 
promises not to offend agayn. He paid no 
reguard to his orders. He loves to work in his 
guarden. He hired a horse and shay. The hol- 
iboat is not so rich as the salmon. Ado! my 
friend, ado ! Had she sent me a boquet of 
flowers, it would have ben acceptable. I had as 
lives go as not. 

LESSON CCCXXII. 
Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 

He sets a dretful example to his children. The 
artic circle surrounds the north pole. He is not 
afeard of shadows. The cups and sarcers were 
all broken. A sassage is not the most whole- 
some food. He would not speak becoz he was a 
foreigner. The fence was bedobbed with paint. 
An awkard boy may be a good one nevertheless. 
The stillyerds are not so true as the scales. The 
air is too percing for weak lungs. A man of 
lezzure should be a benefactor to his race. That 
was a grievious hardship. 

LESSON CCCXXIII. 
Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 

Add five and substract four. Abstain from 
ardent sperrit. The temperance reform makes 
rapid proegress. Yender comes the king of day, 
rejoicing in the east. He ran acrost the field. 
They go beyend the line. They planted turnups 
and reddishes. That cag or small cask was full 
of aigs. No man should baig if he can find 
work. The wings of a bird correspond to the 
fore laigs of a quadruped. We kep silence while 
they step. He crep round the barn. 



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LESSON CCCXXIV. 

Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 
Few parunts eddicate their own children. The 
ba?misters of the staircase are not firm enough. 
Gum Arabac is a valuable gum. Cain became a 
vagabone or wanderer. Sparrowgrass is a whole- 
some plant. She brought an alablaster box of 
ointment. Good cassimeres are serviceable cloths. 
It is our duty to be obleeging and kind. They 
stripped him necked and tied him to a tree. 
Gether up the fragments, that nothing be lost. 
We would ruther die than do it. 

LESSON CCCXXV. 

Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 
Otmeal is often used for gruel in this country. 
The arrers shot by the wicked often recoil. He 
is but the shadder of a man. Many are the sor- 
ters of the toidder and orphan. A wilier tree 
hung over the lake and dipped its leaves in the 
bitters. We caught a yaller-bird, but we did not 
imprison him. The bellus is bust, and the wind 
escapes. The saxton opens the church and rings 
the bell. That was the fust injyne at the fire. 
Few persons return a borrowed umbrilla. His 
idees are always confused. It was sold at public 
vandoo. 

LESSON CCCXXVI. 

Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. 

What will you bate that it is not so 2 We often 
git more than we deserve, and yit we complain. 
Rense the clothes before you wring them out. 
The silver bowl is covered with dents. He has 
done his stent and gone to play. It is wrong 
to resk all upon any adventure. A good nuss is 
as important as a good physician. They stopped 
his hoss and demanded his pus. A parent should 
not speak hashly to his children. They rushed 
fercely upon him, and perced him to the heart. 



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APPENDIX. 

The improper use of the apostrophe has led to 
numerous errors of orthography, which, though 
less common than formerly, are still to be seen in 
some of the most beautifully printed volumes. 
The following Rules, it is believed, will be a suf- 
ficient guide to the pupil. 

Rule 1. Never omit letters when the omission 
neither alters the number of syllables nor the pro- 
nunciation of the word ; as, lov'd for loved ; heav'n 
for heaven ; the? for though, &c. 

Rule 2. Never omit letters or syllables in poetry, 
which are not omitted in pronunciation by correct 
readers ; as, evry for every ; separate for separ- 
ate ; favoring for favoring ; th' obscure for the 
obscure; V th' expectation for in the expectation, &c. 

Rule 3. Do not use the apostrophe, in prose, 
except to mark the possessive case, unless it be in 
familiar dialogues, where we find examples like 
the following, none of which may be used in 
serious or set composition, viz. : 

I've, you've, ive've, they've, for / have, &c. 
We're, you're, they're, for we are. &c. He's, 
she's, it's, what's, that's, how's, there's, all's, for 
he is, &c. I'll, he'll, she'll, we'll, you'll, they'll, 
for / will, &c. I'd, he'd, she'd, we'd, you'd, 
they'd, for I had, or / woidd, &c. 'Tis, is't, 
was't, on't, 'twill, 'twould, for it is, &c. Don't, 
won't, can't, wasn't, isn't, for do not, &c. Let's, 
for let us ; let'em for let them, ; I'm for I am, &c. 
T'other for the other ; s'pose for suppose; ma'am 
for madam, &c, &c, &c. 

The next thirteen lessons, with the exception 
of the first and last, are taken from a handsome 
London edition of Pope's Homer, printed in 1801, 
and will fully illustrate the above rules, while 
they will, it is hoped, induce teachers to turn their 
attention to a fruitful source of many of the 
mutilations to which our language has been long 
unnecessarily subjected. 



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LESSON CCCXXVIL 
Improper Elisions. 
He spoke, and, fondly gazing on her charms, 
Restor'd the pleasing burden to her arms ; 
Soft on her bursting heart the babe she latfd, 
Husk'd to repose, and with a smile surveyed. 
The troubled pleasure soon chastised by fear, 
She mingVd with the smile a tender tear. 
The soften d chief, with kind compassion, viewed, 
And drtfd the falling drops, and thus pursued. 

LESSON CCCXXVIII. 
Improper Elisions, continued. 
And now the chiefs approach the nightly guard, 
A wakeful squadron, each in arms prepafd ; 
TW unioeary'd watch their listening leaders keep, 
And couching close, repel invading sleep. 
So faithful dogs their fleecy charge maintain, 
With toil protected from the prowling train, 
When the gaunt lioness, with hunger bold, 
Springs from the mountains toward the guarded 

fold: 
Thro- breaking woods her rustling course they 

hear, 
Loud, and more loud, the clamors strike their ear, 
Of hounds and men ; they start, they gaze around, 
Watch ev'ry side, and turn to ev'ry sound. 

LESSON CCCXXIX. 
Improper Elisions, continued. 
A glittring spear wav'd awful in her hand. 
My generous brother is of gentle kind. 

Neptune by prayW repentant rarely won, 
Afflicts the chief f avenge his giant son. 
Then seized his ponderous lance, and strode 

along. 
WanoVi^ing from clime to clime, observant, 

stray 'd 
TK unhappy general of the Grecian bands. 
But, sure, Hill now no coursers struck my sight. 



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LESSON CCCXXX. 
Improper Elisions, continued. 

This said, each parted to his sev'ral cares. 
Let all combine f achieve his tmsh'd return. 
Since all who in tti Olympian bouPr reside. 

Her dreaded arm a beamy javTin bore, 
Ponderous and vast. 

With these, sublime, -she sails 
T" atrial space, and mounts the winged gales. * 
Of yonder fleet a bold discovery make. 

Better the chief on liion's hostile plain 
Had JalVn. 

LESSON CCCXXXI. 

Improper Elisions, continued. 

He mind Troy and raz'd her heaven built wall. 

And reward her choice 
With wealthy doitfr, and bridal gifts of price, 
Thro" 1 too much deference to our sovereign sway. 
The golden eitfr a maid obsequious brings. 
Thee, first of all ttt heavenly host, we praise. 

Delivering early -to the voice of fame 
The promise of a great, immortal name. 



* It would be a help to good reading, if, v;hen the silent syl- 
lable is to be pronounced, as in this case, it were always marked 
with the diaeresis. (* •) A few more examples are given, in the 
hope that those who, by their examples, establish laws in litera- 
ture, will think the hint worthy of their adoption. 

But the light- winged and many -voiced wind. — /. Baillis. 

Accoutred as I was, I plunged in. — Shaksp. 

Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabbed, 
And as he plucked the cursed steel away, 
Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it ! — Id. 



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LESSON CCCXXXIL 
Improper- Elisions, continued. 
With reverence we allow 
Thy just rebukes ; yet learn to spare them now. 
Ev'n to the temple stalk' d the adulterous spouse. 
And odorous fumes from loaded altars rolVd. 

A muroVrous crew, 
Half breathless 'scaping to the land, he flew. 
O'er his falVn trunk his ample shield displayed. 

Thou conqueror of the fair, 
Thou woman warrior with the curling hair. 

LESSON CCCXXXIII. 
Improper Elisions, continued. 

The muroVrer fell, and blood atoned for blood. 

Honey new pressed and sacred flower of wheat, 
And wholesome garlic crown' d the sav'ry treat. 
Intemperate rage a wordy war began. 
But ah f what flattering hopes I entertain. 

A bull was slain 
To the blue monarch of the wafry main. 

O'er heapy shields, and o'er the prostrate throng, 
Collecting spoils, and slaughtering all along. 

LESSON CCCXXXIY. 

Improper Elisions y continued. 

A towering structure to the palace joined. 
He, like a whirlwind, toss'd the scattering throng. 
With shame repuls } d, with grief and fury driven, 
The frantic Asius thus accuses heaven. 
The generous impulse ev'ry Greek obeys. 
As when high Jove his sharp artilVry forms. 
What aid appear'd £' avert tK approaching war ? 
Ploughed half his side, and bar'd it to the bone. 
An untam'd heifer pleas' d the blue-ey'd maid. 
It shakes, the pond'rous stones, disjointed, yield. 



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LESSON CCCXXXV. 
Improper Elisions, continued. 
Canst thou hear 
A we\\-tim' > d counsel with a willing ear? 

Fir'd with the thirst which emulation breeds, 
And smit with love of honorable deeds. 

A wood of glitfring spears 
Shoots up, and all the rising host appears. 

The laboring Grecian train 
The fiercest shock of charging hosts sustain. 
Driven by the goddess of the painted bow. 
A shady light was shot from glimmering shields. 
Stained the pure iv'rp with a lively red. 

LESSON CCCXXXYL 
Improper Elisions, continued. 
Not two strong men thl enormous weight could 
raise, 
Such men as live in these degenerate days. 
Forward he springs and clasps the favorite boy. 
The generous soul abhors tk 1 ungrateful act. 
The fleecy snow obeys the whispering gales. 
Thus cautious V iK obscure he hop'd to fly. 
Unnumbered birds glide throe ^ a erial way. 
Indulgent to his prayer, the goddess spoke. 
Whom Pallas with unpardening fury fired. 

LESSON CCCXXXVII. 

Improper Elisions, continued. 
Prepared ere yet descends the evening hour. 
And when the fayering shades of night arise. 
Far hence, replyed the prince, let fear be di^n. 
Nor uncompelVd the dangerous truth betray. 
And tMrous passed, and awfully withdrew. 
Full in the openings of the spacious main. 
There ez?V?/ age with slumberous chains she bound. 
Poured from the neighbering strand, deformed to 

view. 
With smoking beasts, an offering to the Lord. 



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LESSON CCCXXXVIII. 
Improper Elisions, continued. 
The goddess beckoning waves her deathless hands. 
For nought unprospWous shall thy ways attend. 
Were evWy wish indulged by fori ring skies. 
Against that numerous and determin' d band. 
To see the preference due to sacred age. 
Sep'rate from all, I safely landed here. 
Reph/d the Thund'rer to the martial maid. 

Nor winter's boreal blast, nor thund Wous shoiv'r, 
Nor solar ray could pierce the shady bow : r. 
Her flatCring words in melting murmurs dy'd. 

LESSON CCCXXXIX. 
Improper Elisions, continued. 
Condemned in bus'ness or in arts to drudge. 

I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, 
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech. 
While one end is up, t'other sticks to the ground. 

Or else with blood and desolation 
They'll tear it out o' tK heart o' ih? nation. 

For, by this time, the routed bear, 
Attack' d by tfC enemy i' tK rear. 

Seeing the coast was free and clear 
O' t/i > conquered and the conqueror. 



In the following exercises the errors are quite 
miscellaneous, but they have all been provided 
for in the preceding lessons. 

LESSON CCCXL. 
The desires of man increace with his acquisi- 
cio?is ; every step which he advances brings 
somthing within his view, which he did not see 
before, and ivich, as soon as he sees it, he begins 
to want. Where necesity ends, curioscity begins ; 
and, no sooner are we svplied with everything 
that nature can demand, than we sitt down to 
contrive artifitial apetites. 

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LESSON CCCXLI. 

When a Roman general, siting at super, with 
a plate of turnups before him, was sollicited by 
large pressents to betray his trust, he asked the 
■mesengers wether he that could sup on turnups 
was a man likely to sell his country. Uppon 
him who has redused his senses to obediance, tem- 
tation has lost its power; he is able to attend 
imparsially to virtu, and execute her comands 
without Jiessitation, 

LESSON CCCXLII. 

The wize and active conker dificidtys 
By daring to attewit them ; sloth and folly 
Shiver and srink at sight of toil and hasard, 
And make th? imposibUity they fear. 



If sollid hapiness we prise, 
Within our brest the gewel lies ; 

And they are fools who ronie : 
The world has nothing to bestow ; 
From our ownselos our joys must flow 

And that deer spott our home. 

LESSON CCCXLIII. 

Those who are in the pour of evel habbits must 
conker them as they can ; and conker ed they must 
be, or neither wisdom nor hapiness can be 
atained; but those who are not yet subject to 
their influence may, by timely emotion, preserv 
there fredom ; they may efectually resolve to 
escape the tirant, whom they will very vanely 
resolve to conker. 



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LESSON CCCXLIY. 

The practice of self-denyal, or the forbearence 
of lawfull plesure, has been considdered by almost 
every nation, from the remotest ages, as the hlest 
exaltation of human virtue ; and all have agreed 
to pay respect and venneration to those who 
abstained from the delites of life, even iven they 
did not sensure those who enjoy them. To set 
the mind above the apetites is the end of absti- 
7iense, which one of the Fathers observes to bee 
not a vertue, but the groundworke of veriue. 

LESSON CCCXLV. 

O Thou, whose povfr o'er moving worlds pre- 

zldes, 
Whose voise created, and whose wisdom gides. 
On darkeling men in pure refidjence shine, 
And chear the clowded mind with lite devine. 
'Tis thine allone to calm the pyous brest 
With silent confi dense and holy rest : 
From Thee, great God, we spring ; to The we 

tend ; 
Path, motive, gide, oridgi?ial, and end, 

LESSON COCXLVI. 

It very seldom hapens that a man's biasness is 
his plesure. What is done from necesity is so 
often to be done against the presant inclination, 
and so often fills the mind with anxiety, that an 
habittual dislike steels upon us, and we shrink 
involuntarily from the rememberance of our task. 
This is the reason why allmost etfry one wishes 
to quit his imployment ; he does not like another 
state, but is disgusted with his own. 



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LESSON CCCXLVII. 

Of riches, as of ev'ry thing else, the hope is 
more than the injoyment ; wile we considder them 
as the means to be used at some future time for 
the atainment of felisity, we press on our persuit 
ardently and vigerously, and that arder secures 
us from wearyness of ourselves; but, no sooner 
do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions, than we 
find them, insuffitient to fill up the vacuity s of 
life. 

LESSON CCCXLVIII. 

'Tis the last rose of swner left bloomin alone, 
All its lovly compannions are faded and gone ; 
No flour of its kindrid, no rosebud is nye. 
To refflect back its blushes and return sie for sie. 
I'll not leeve thee, thou loan one, to pyne on the 

stemm, 
Sinse the lovly are shaping, go sleap thou with 

them. 
Thus kindly I shatter thy leafs o'er the bead, 
Where thy mates of the garden lye senceless and 

ded. 

LESSON CCCXLIX. 

Sobriety, or temper ence, is nothing but the 
forbareance of pleasure ; and if pleasure was not 
followed by paine, who would forbare it 1 We 
see, every our, those in whom the desire of present 
indulgense overpoiirs ail senee of past, and all 
forsight of future misery. In a remision of the 
goute the drunkerd returns to his wine, and the 
gluion to his feast; and if neether discease nor 
poverty were felt or dreaded, every one would 
sink down in idle seiishuallity, without any care 
of others or of himself. To eat, and drink, and 
lye down to sleep, would be the whole buisiness 
of mankind. 



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LESSON CCCL. 

Many have no hapier moments than those they 
pass in sollitv.de, abbandoned to there own immag- 
innation, which sometimes puts septers in thier 
hands, or miters on thier heads, shifts the seen of 
pleasure with endless varriety, bids all the forms 
of beuty sparcle before them, and glntts them with 
every change of vissi&nnary lugsury. 

LESSON OCCLI. 

The thred of our life would be dark, heatfn 
nowSy 
If it were not with freindship and love inter- 
twined ; 
And I care not how soon I may sink to repose, 
When these blesings shall sease to be deer to 
my mind. 
But they who have lov'd the fondest, the purest, 
Two often have wept oar the dreem they 
believ'd, 
And the hart, that has slumbered in freindship 
secureest, 
Is happy indeed, if 't was never deeietfd. 

LESSON CCCLIL 

As Providense has made the human soal an 
activ being, allways impasient for novelty, and 
struglingiox somthing yet unenjoid, with unwea- 
ried progression, the world seems to have been 
emminently addapted to this disposition of the 
mind ; it is formed to raze expectations by con- 
stant visissitudes, and obviate satyety by peiyei- 
tual change. 



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LESSON CCCLIII. 

Oh ! think not my spirrits are allways as light, 
And as free from a pang, as they seem to you 
now; 
Nor expect that the hart-beeming smyle of too- 
night 
Will return with too-morow to briten my brow : — 
No, life is a waste of weary some ours, 

Which seldum the rose of enjoyment addorns ; 
And the heart that is soonest awaike to the flours ; 
Is allways the first to be toutcttd by the 
thorns. 

LESSON CCCLIY. 

Etfry old man complanes of the growing 
depravety of the world, of the pettulense and inso- 
lense of the riseing genneration. He recounts 
the desensy and regidarrity of former times, and 
selebrates the dissipline and sobriety of the age in 
which his yooth was passed ; a hapy age, which 
is now no more to be expected, since confusion 
has broken in uppon the world, and thrown down 
all the bounderies of sivillity and revverence. 

LESSON CCCLY. 

Still on thy banks, so gayly green, 
May numerous heards and floks be scene. 
And lases chanting o'er the pale, 
And sheperds pipeing in the dail, 
And antient faith, that knows no gile, 
And industry imbrown'd with toy/, 
And hearts resolved, and hands prepared, 
The blesings they -/w/oy to gwc?. 



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The errors in the remaining lessons are not 
marked by a difference of type. The teacher is 
requested to notice all cases in which an improper 
use is made of the apostrophe, 

LESSON CCCLVL 

But soft, my friend, arest the present moments ; 
For be assur'd they all are arrent tel-tales ; 
And though their flite be silent, and their path 
Traseless, as the winged conrriers of the aire, 
They post to heav'n, and there record thy folly ; 
Because, tho' station'd on the important watch. 
Thou, like a sleeping, faithless sentinal, 
Didst let them pass tmnotic'd, unimprov'd. 

LESSON CCCLTIL 

Then stay the pressent instant, dear Horatio; 
Emprint the marcs of wisdom on its wings. 
'Tis of more worth than kingdoms 1 far more 

presious 
Than all the crimzon tressnres of life's fountain. 
O ! let it not ellude thy grasp, but like 
The good old patriarck upon reckord, 
Hold the flete angel fast, untill he bless thee. 

LESSON CCCLVJIL 

The prospeckt of pennury in age is so glumy 
and terifying, that every man who loocks before 
him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be 
avoided gennerally by the sience of spareing. 
For, though in every age there are sum, who, by 
bold adventures, or by faverable axidents, rise 
sudenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge 
hopes of sutch rare events ; and the bulck of 
mankind must owe their influense to small and 
graddual profnts, below which their expences 
must be resolutely redused, 



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LESSON CCCLIX. 

Attend my lessens, thotless youths, 

Ere long you '11 think them waity truths; 

Prudent it were to think so now, 

Ere age has silver' d o'er your brow : 

For he, who at his early years 

Has sown in vise, shall reep in teers. 

If folly has possess'd his pryme, 

Diseaze shall gether strenth in time ; 

Poizen shall rage in every vain, 

Nor pennitense delute the stain ; 

And wen each hour shall urge his fate, 

Thought, like the docter, comes to late. 

LESSON CCCLX. 

He that would pass the latter part of life with 
honor and desensy, must, wen he is young, con- 
sider that he shall one day be old : and remmem- 
ber, wen he is old, that he has onse ben young. 
In youth, he must lay up knoledge for his suport, 
wen his powers of acting shall forsake him ; and 
in age, forbear to annimadvert with riggor on 
falls which experience only can correct. 

LESSON CCCLXI. 

Wen, young, life's journy I began, 

The glittering prospeckt charm'd my eyes, 
I saw along the extended plain 

Joy after joy succesive rize : 
And Fame her golden trumpet blue ; 

And Power display'd her gorgeus charms, 
And Welth engag'd my wand'ring view, 

And Plesure woo'd me to her arms : 
But soon I found t'was all a dreme, 

And learn' d the fond persuit to shun, 
Were few can reach thier purpos'd aim, 

And thousands dayly are undone. 



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LESSON CCCLXII. 

When a king asked Euclid, the mathematision, 
wether he could not explain his art to him in a 
more compendeous manner, he was anser'd, that 
there was no royal way to geommetry. Other 
things may be seis'd by might, or purchas'd by 
monney ; but knolege is to be gain'd only by 
studdy, and studdy to be prossecuted only in 
retirement. 

LESSON CCCLXIII. 

Happy the man who sees a God emploid 
In all the good or ill that checkers life, — 
Resolving all events, with thier effects, 
And manyfold results, into the will 
And arbitration wise of the Supreem. 
Did not his eye rule all things, and intend 
The least of our conserns, (sinse from the least 
The gratest oft origginate,) — could chanse 
Find plase in his dominion, or dispose 
One lauless particle to thawrt his plan, — 
Then God might be surpriz'd, and unforseen 
Contingense mite alarm him, and disturb 
The smoothe and equal course of his afairs. 

LESSON CCCLXIV. 

Riches, authorrity, and praise, loose all their 
inrluense, wen they are considered as riches, wich 
to-morrow shall be bestowed upon annother; 
authorrity which shall this night expire for ewer ; 
and prase wich, howevver merritted, or how- 
ewer sinsere, shall, after a few moments, be herd 
no more. 



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LESSON CCCLXV. 

Recieve, deer freind, the truths I teach. 
So shalt thou live heyond the reech 

Of adverse fortunes pour ; 
Not allways tempt the distant deep. 
Nor allways timmorously creep 

Along the treach'rous shore. 

He that holds fast the goalden meen, 
And lives contentedly between 

The littel and the great, 
Feels not the wants that pintch the poor, 
Nor plages that hant the rich man's dore, 

Imbitt'ring all his state. 

LESSON CCCLXVI. 

Every man is prom ted by the love of himself, 
to immagine that he posesses sum qualitys, 
superior, either in kind or degree, to those which 
he sees alotted to the rest of the world; and, 
whatever aparent disadvantages he may suffer in 
the comparison with others, he has sum invisible 
distinktions, sum latent reserve of exellenee, 
which he throws into the ballance, and by which 
he gennerally fancys that it is turn'd in his favor. 

LESSON CCCLXYII. 

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time 

But from its loss. To give it then a tongue 

Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 

I feel the solem sound. If herd arright, 

It is the neli of my departed hours : 

Were are they ? With the years beyond the flood. 

It is the sygnal that demands dispach. 

How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears 

Start up allarm'd, and o're life's narrow verge 

Look down — on what ? a fathumless abys ! 

A dread eternity ! how shurely mine ! 

And can eternity belong to me, 

Poor pentioner on the bountys of an hour? 



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LESSON CCCLXYIII. 

There is not, peraps, to a mind well instructed, 
a more painfull occurrance, than the deth of one 
whome we have injured without reperation. 
Our crime seems now irretreivable; it is indelebly 
recorded, and the stamp of fate is fixed upon it. 
We concider, with the most aflictive angwish, the 
paine which we have given, and now cannot 
aleviate ; and the losses which we have caused, 
and now cannot repare. 

LESSON CCCLXIX. 

Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to clime 

The steepe were Fame's proud tempel shines 

afar ! 
Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime 
Has felt the* influense of malignent star, 
And wag'd with fortune an eternal war ! 
Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, 
And Poverty's unconkerabel barr, 
In life's low vaile remote, has pin'd allone, 
Then droppt into the grave, unpittied and un- 
known. 

LESSON CCCLXX. 

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 
Pleas'd with a ratle, tickl'd with a straw. 
Some livlier plaything gives his youth delite, 
A little lowder, but as empty quite. 
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, 
And beeds and pray'r-books are the toys of age; 
Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, 
Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is ore. 



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LESSON CCCLXXL 

Foreever with the Lord ! 

Amen, so let it be. 

Life from the dead 

Is in that word, 

J Tis immortallity. 

Here in the boddy pent, 

Absent from Thee we rome, 

And nightly pitch our moveing tents, 

A days march neerer home. 

LESSON CCCLXXII. 

Toutch us gently, Time ! 

Let us glide adoun thy streem, 

Gently as we sumtimes glide 

Thro' a quiet dreem. 

We 've not proud nor soreing wings, 

Our ambitian, our content 

Lie in simpel things. 

Humble voiagers are we, 

Oer lifes dim, unbounded sea, 

Seaking only some calm climb ; — 

Toutch us gently, gentle Time. 

LESSON CCCLXXIII. 

Her suff 'ring ended with the day, 

Yet liv'd she at its close, 

And breath' d the long, long nite away, 

In stattue-like repose. 

But wen the son, in all his state, 

Ilium' d the eastern skys, 

She pass'd through glory's morning gait, 

And walk'd in Paradice. 



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LESSON CCCLXXIY. 

Now, in thy youth, beseach of Him, 

Who giveth, npbrading not, 
That his lite in thy heart become not dimm, 

And his love be unforegot ; — 
And thy God, in the darkest of days, will be 
Greanness and beuty and strenth to thee. 

LESSON CCCLXXY. 

It was good, it was keind in the wise One above, 
To fling destiny's vale o'er the face of our years, 
That we dred not the blow that shall strike at 

our love, 
And expect not the beem that shall dry up our 

teers. 
Did we know that the voises, now gentle and 

bland, 
Will forgo the fond word and the wispering tone, — 
Did we know that the eeger and warm-presing 

hand 
Will be joyfuly foreward in " casting the stone," 
O ! did we but know of the shaddows so nigh, 
The world would indeed be a pris'n of gloom, 
All light would be quench' d in youth's elloquent 

eye, 
And the pray'r-lisping infant would ask for the 

toom. 

LESSON CCOLXXVI. 

O, weap not for him ! 'tis unkindness to weap, 
The weary week frame has but fall'n asleap ; 
No more of fateague or endareance it knows, 
O weap not, O brake not the gentle repose. 
Weep not that so soon he is gone to be bless'd ; 
He gave to his God the first hours and the best ; 
Can the laborer cease from his labor too soon ? 
He rought all the morning and wrested at noon. 



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LESSON CCCLXXVII. 

There is a sea, by whose dim shoar, 
We fondly pause awile, to gaze 
On recks of pleasure now no more, 
The trases sad of bye-gone days. 
That sea is Memory's — its waves 
Roll dark and chill above the spot, 
Were, resting in there silent graves, 
Lye those who were — but now are not. 

LESSON CCCLXXVIII. 

Let the King of the Grave be ask't to tell 
The plant he loveth best, 

And it will not be the cipress tree, 
Tho' 't is ever the churchyard guest ; 

He will not mark the hemlock dark, 
Nor stay were the nite-shade spreds ; 

He will not say 't is the somber yew, 
Tho' it spring ore skeleton heads. 

But where the green, rich storks are seen, 
Where ripe frutes gush and shine, 

This, this, cries he, is the tree for me, — 
The Yine, the beautifull Vine ! 

LESSON CCCLXXIX. 

O Thou, Eternal One ! whose presance bright 
All space doth ocupy, all motion gide, — - 

Unchang'd thro' time's all-devastating flight, 
Thou only God ! their is no God beside. 

Being above all beings ! mighty ONE ! 

Whom none can comprehend and nun explore ; 
. Who fill'st existance with thyself alone, 

Embraceing all. — supporting, — ruleing o'er ; — 
Being whom we call God — and know no more. 



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LESSON CCCLXXX. 

Two hundred years ! two hundred years ! 

How much of human pow'r and pride, 
What glorious hopes, what gloomy feers, 

Have sunk beneth there noiseless tide ! 
'Tis ail a dreem when one awakes, 

This vizion of the seens of old ; 
'Tis like the moon when morning brakes; 

'Tis like a tail round watch-fires told. 
Then what are we ! then what are we ! 

Yes, when too hundred years have roli'd 
O'er our green graves, our names shall be 

A morning dreem, a tale that 's told. 

LESSON CCCLXXXL 

If Hope be a star that would leed us astray, 
And "deceiveth the heart," as the aged ones 

preech, 
Yet 'twas mercy that gave it tobeakon our way, 
Tho' its halo ilumes where we never may reach. 
Tho' freindship but flitt like a metior gleem, 
Tho' it bursts like a morn-light buble of dew, 
Tho' it passes away like a lief on the streem, 
Yet 'tis bliss while we fancy the vizion is true. 

LESSON CCCLXXXII. 

Come, listen to his voice who dyed to save 
Lost man, and raze him from his moral grave ; 
From darkness show'd a path of light to heaven ; 
Cry'd "rise and walk! thy sins are all forgiv'n." 
Blessed are the pure in heart. Would' st thou be 

blest ? 
He'll dense thy spotted sole. Would' st thou find 

rest? 
Around thy toils and cares he '11 breath a calm, 
And to thy wounded spirrit lay a barm ; 
From fear draw love, and teech the where to seek 
Lost strength and granjeur, with the bow'd and 

meak. 



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LESSON CCCLXXXIIT. 

Rouze to some work of high and holy love, 
And thou an angel's hapiness shalit know — 
Shalt bless the earth wile in the world above. 
The good begun by thee shall onward flow 
In many a branching streem, and wider grow; 
The seed that in these few and Seating hours, 
Thy hands unspareing and un weary' d sow, 
Shall deck thy grave with amaranthin flow'rs, 
And yeild thee fruit divine in heaven's immortal 
bow'rs. 

LESSON CCCLXXXIY. ■ 

J Tis ever thus — 'tis ever thus, that when the 

poor heart clings 
With all its finest tendrills, with all its flexil rings, 
The goodly thing it cleeveth to, so fondly and so fast, 
Is struck to earth by lightening, or shatter'd by 

the blast. 
'Tis ever thus — 't is ever thus, with cretures 

hevenly fair, 
Too finely fram'd to bide the brunt more earthly 

natures bare ; 
A little wile they dwell with us, blessed minnis- 

ters of love, 
Then spred the wings we have not seen, and seek 

there home above. 

LESSON CCCLXXXY. 

'Tis midnight, — from the dark blew sky, 
The stars, which now look down on earth, 
Have scene ten thousand cent'ries fly, 
And give to countless changes berth. 

And when the piramids shall fall, 
And, mould' ring, mix their dust with air, 
The dwellers on this alter'd ball 
May still behold them glorious there. 



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LESSON CCCLXXXVI. 

So live, that, when thy sumons comes to join 
Th' innumerable carravan, that moves 
To the pail relms of shade, where each shall take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, 
Scourg'd to his dunjeon; but, sustain'd and 

sooth 'd 
By an unfalltering trust, approch thy grave, 
Like one who raps the drap'ry of his couch 
About him, and lyes down to plesant dreams. 



LESSON CCCLXXXVIL 

There is an unseen pow'r around, 
Existing in the silent air ; 
Where treadeth man, where space is found, 

Unherd, unknown, that power is their. 
The power that watches, gides, defends, 

Till man becomes a lifeless sod, 
Till earth is naught — naught earthly freinds, — 

That omnipresant power — is God. 

LESSON CCCLXXXYIIL 

Let fate do her worst, their are rellics of joy, 
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot 

distroy, 
And witch come, in the night time of sorrow and 

care, 
To bring back the feetures that joy us'd to ware. 
Long, long be my heart with such mem'ries fill'd ! 
Like the vase in which roses have oft ben dis- 

till'd, 
You may brake, you may ruin the vase, if you 

will, 
But the sent of the roses will hang round it still. 



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LESSON CCCLXXXIX. 

Three hosts combine to offer sacrafice ; 
Three tongues prefer strange orrisons on high ; 
Three gawdy standards float the pail blue skys, 
The shouts are France, Spain, Albion, Victory ! 
The foe, the victim, and the fond ally, 
That fights for all, but ever fights in vane, 
Are met — as if at home they could not dye — 
To feed the crow on Talavera's plane, 
And fertilise the feild. that each pretends to gain. 

LESSON CCCXC. 

Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,. 

Last eave, m beuty's circle proudly gay, 

The midnight brought the signal sound of strife, — 

The mourn, the marshaling in alms — the day, 

Battle's magnificently stern array. 

The thunder clowds close o'er it, which, when 

rent, 
The erth is cover' d thick with other clay, 
Which her own clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, 
Rider and hoarse — freind, foe — in one red berial 

blent. 

LESSON CCOXCL 

But midst the croud, the humm, the shock of 

men, 
To hear, to sea, to feel and to posess, 
And rome along, the world's tir'd denizen, 
With none who bless us, none whom we can 

bless ; 
Minnions of splendour, shrinking from distress ! 
None that, with kindred consiousness endud, 
If we were not, would seam to smile the less, 
Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought and su'd; — 
This is to be alone ; — this, this is sollitude ! 



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LESSON CCOXCII. 

And this is night : — most glorious night, 
Thou wert not maid for slumber ! let me be 
A sharer in thy feirce and fair delight,— 
A portion of the tempest and of thee. 
How the lit lake shines, a phosforic see. 
And the big reign comes danceing to thee earth ! 
And now again 'tis black; — and now the glea 
Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain merth, 
As if they did rejoyce o'er a young earthquake's 
berth, 

LESSON CCCXCIIL 

O seraph Hope ! that here below 

Can nothing deer to the last forgo ! 

When we see the forms, we feign would save, 

Ware step by step adoun to the grave, 

Still hope a lambent gleem will shed 

Over the last, the dyeing bed ; — 

And ev'n as now, when the soal's away, 

It fluters and linggers over the clay. 

O hope ! thy rainge was never expounded ! 

5 Tis not bye the grave that thou art bounded $ 



LESSON CCCXCIV, 

How foolish mankeind are to look for perfection 

In any poor changling under the son ! 
By nature, or habbit, or want of reflexion, 

To vices or folly we headlessly run. 
The man who is moddest and keind in his nature, 

And open and chearful in ev'ry degree, 
Who feals for the avos of his own felow-creture, 

Tho' subject to faleings, is deer unto me, 



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LESSON CCCXCY. 

Sun of the sleaples ! melancholly star I 
Whose teerful beam glows tremulously far, 
That show's! the darkness thou canst not dispell, 
How like art thou to joy remember' d well 1 
So gleems the past, the light of other days. 
Which shines, but warmes not, with its pow'r- 

less rays, 
A night-beam sorrow watcheth too behold, 
Distinct but distant— clear— but, oh how cold I 

LESSON CCCXCVL 

Lauded be thy name fore ever. 

Thou of life the gueard and giver f 

Thou canst gard thy cretures sleaping, 

Heel the heart long broke with weaping r 

And all the fury subject keep 

Of boiling clowd and chafed deep. 

I have seen and well I no it, 
Thou hast dun, and thou wilt do iU 
God of stilness and of motion, 
Of the rainbow and the ocean. 
Of the mountin, rock and rivver y 

Blessed be thy name fore ever. 

LESSON CCCXCVIL 

I have seen Thy wonderous mite y 
Thro' the shaddows of the night ; 
Thou who slumb'rest not, nor sleapest. 
Blessed are they Thou kindly keepest I 
Thine the flameing sphear of light, 
Thine the darkness of the night, 
Thine are all the gemms of ev'n ; 
God of angels ! God of Heav'n ! 
God of life, that fade shall never ! 
Glory to thy name fore ever ! 



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